hyperlinks pointing to a redirect to a redirect fails

[Steven Stuart]

Is there any known problem where a hyperlink is placed in
MS Word, which points to a page with a redirect which
points to another page with a redirect and fails to
display. If this same link is placed in an Outlook email
it works fine. If the link is placed in MS Word, to the
direct path of the first redirect it appears to work
fine. I have not been able to find an article relating to
this.

Products used: desktop is XP - SP1, Word 2002, IE 6, and
W2K Server w/IIS 5.

Thanks,
Steven