Why does jQuery RTE plug-in change my URLs to relative links?

Question

Can anyone figure out why jQuery rte plugin is changing my urls to relative links?

Any external links are fine but if the page i'm on is here http://www.example.com/admin/input/ and the url I want to link to is here: http://www.example.com/test/ the plugin will remove the http://www.example.com/ from my link and replace with ../

The url function in the tool bar wants to insert this html for me:

<a href="http://www.example.com/test/id/blah" target="_blank" title="" />Echoes of Ireland, March 13th, 2011</a>

...and uses this function to do it:

self.editor_cmd("insertHTML", html);

    lwRTE.prototype.editor_cmd = function(command, args) {
        try {
            this.iframe_doc.execCommand(command, false, args);
        } catch(e) {
        console.log(e)
    }
}

That's when I end up with an altered URL. I know nothing about prototype. Any help here?

Thanks.