Linking Horizontal Menu

[MBKL]

I have problems with links,they don't open at all,can someone please reply to me

This is code :
<itemList><<a href="http://www.google.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" text = "Special Chars aOo?Le"></item>
</itemList>
</Horizontal_Scrolling_Menu

I want to open links as possiblle in same window

[Bogdan]

The <item> block should look like this:
<item URL="http://www.flashtory.com" rel="nofollow" target="_self" text = "About The Company"></item>

Check the xml file in the original package and modify it