urlencode help (plz)

[RDWest2005]

hi guys,
i'm stumped here
i'm writing a script for extracting xml info from amazon on music

the album names that i have to work with have brackets and parenthacies

like Band Name (REMASTERED) or [REMASTERED]
some have (UNLEASHED) (2002) etc

the brackets and parenthacies are giving me errors etc
amazon xml search don't know what to do with the %28 - %29 etc
the + works in string for space and %20 i think

i've tried urlencode() and trim - i'm outta options here

can someone help me get the P's - B's out of the string?
i open the text file and assign to array
then access each one array[0] etc
album
artist
song title
time

i'm just doing a search with album and song title

here is what text i get...
Album: Hotel California [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

here is what it looks like in url string after urlencode...
Title=Hotel+California+%5BORIGINAL+RECORDING+REMASTERED%5D

i don't know how to get rid of the different %'s

all help would be greatly appreciated guys
tx
RD

[Keith]

You could try rawurlencode and if that fails try using ereg_replace to replace the symbols.