Dreamweaver bug?

If I create a template and make a link to a directory (<a href="../handbook/"),
Dreamweaver removes the trailing slash
in pages generated from the template and link to it as if it were a file
instead, so it looks like (<a href="handbook") when it should really look like
(<a href="handbook/").

I am using Dreamweaver 8, is this also a bug in the upgraded versions? I would
like to do anything to fix this issue, it is causing duplicate pages to be
indexed in the search engines so I have a lot of cleaning up to do.

.../handbook/ should not be turned into handbook or handbook/ . First the ../
designates that the folder is higher in the directory structure and trailing
slashes are really not necessary. The proper link format for your first
example would be ../handbook .

well, the path changed because I put the actual page somewhere else (not in the
template folder), however, in that example, if I did keep it in the same
folder, the format that I want the link is ../handbook/ . However, DW removes
the last slash (/). Can I override this, or upgrade to get rid of this code
rewrite?