Word 2002 - Problem with pasting hyperlinks from clipboard

[Dflat_newbie0001]

I ran into a very annoying bug when pasting hyperlinks from the
clipboard side panel in Word 2002.

I'm writing Word docs that eventually will be exported as HTML for some
software documentation. At various places in the document I want to
return to the index of the document and have a clipboard item that just
has a link, "Index" and a hyperlink attached to it (Insert menu +
Hyperlink, or Alt i-i).

Once the link is then copied with Ctrl-C and pasted with Ctrl-V I can
replicate the link over the document without any problems. However,
the link also appears on the 24-item clipboard panel on the right of
the application window. I've found that frequently if I try to paste
the link subsequently by clicking on the clipboard item, then Word
screws up the paste, specifically by putting the bookmark tag label on
twice, e.g. where it should say

<documentname>#Index

it actually pastes

<documentname>#Index#Index

Needless to say the link doesn't work if you click on it. This
persists after you export the file to HTML by saving as a web-page.

Has anyone encountered this problem before and is there a work-round?

Iain.