Index: relatedlinks.module
===================================================================
--- relatedlinks.module	(revision 1772)
+++ relatedlinks.module	(revision 1778)
@@ -97,7 +97,9 @@
         // Fall through.
       case 'insert':
         if (in_array('manual', variable_get('relatedlinks_types', array('parsed')))) {
-          _relatedlinks_add_links($node->nid, explode("\n", $node->relatedlinks), RELATEDLINKS_MANUAL);
+          // Reverse the array to maintain the original ordering
+          // across multiple node updates.
+          _relatedlinks_add_links($node->nid, array_reverse(explode("\n", $node->relatedlinks)), RELATEDLINKS_MANUAL);
         }
         if (in_array('parsed', variable_get('relatedlinks_types', array('parsed')))) {
           // Rather than parsing out only the URI + link text, an attempt is 
@@ -137,8 +139,34 @@
       return;
     }
 
-    $relatedlinks = !empty($node->relatedlinks) ? implode("\n", $node->relatedlinks) : '';
+    // Get the links to be placed in the text field.
+    if (!empty($node->relatedlinks)) {
+      $relatedlinks = $node->relatedlinks;
 
+      // The links that come in from the database are HTML-formatted.
+      // This isn't very user friendly, so we're splitting each into
+      // the URL and the title, separated by a space.  Or if there isn't
+      // a separate title, just list the URL.
+      foreach ($relatedlinks as $index => $link) {
+        preg_match('#href="([^"]*)"#',$link,$matches);
+        $url = $matches[1];
+        
+        preg_match('#>([^<]*)<#',$link,$matches);
+        $title = $matches[1];
+
+        if ($url == $title) {
+          $relatedlinks[$index] = $url;
+        }
+        else {
+          $relatedlinks[$index] = $url . " " . $title;
+        }
+      }
+      $relatedlinks = implode("\n", $relatedlinks);
+    }
+    else {
+      $relatedlinks = '';
+    }
+
     $form['relatedlinks_fieldset'] = array(
       '#type' => 'fieldset',
       '#title' => t('Related links'),
@@ -151,8 +179,8 @@
       '#type' => 'textarea',
       '#default_value' => $relatedlinks,
       '#rows' => 3,
-      '#description' => t('To manually define links to related material, enter 1
-HTML-formatted link per line. Example: &lt;a href="http://www.example.com"&gt;Clickable text&lt;/a&gt;.')
+      '#notinymce' => TRUE,
+      '#description' => t('To manually define links to related material, enter one URL and title (separated by a space) per line.  Example: "<code>http://www.example.com Clickable Text</code>".  Alternately, you can enter an internal site address.  Example: "<code>about About Us</code>" If no title is submitted, the URL itself will become the title.')
     );
   }
 }
@@ -269,6 +297,25 @@
   foreach ($links as $link) {
     $link = trim($link);
     if (!empty($link)) {
+
+      // Manual links need to be converted from a user-friendly format
+      // to HTML format because they are entered by the user.
+      if ($type == RELATEDLINKS_MANUAL) {
+        // Get the URL and the title from the text.
+        $url_and_title = explode(" ", $link);
+        $url = array_shift($url_and_title);
+        $title = implode(" ", $url_and_title);
+
+        // If there is no title, the title will become the URL itself.
+        if (!$title) {
+          $title = $url;
+        }
+
+        // Construct the HTML-formatted link.
+        $link = "<a href=\"$url\">$title</a>";
+      }
+
+      // Insert it into the database.
       db_query("INSERT INTO {relatedlinks} (nid, link, type) VALUES (%d, '%s', %d)", $nid, $link, $type);
     }
   }