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URLs - relative and the use of ~

Hi I have a file (control) at the root of my website called topbar.ascx which holds all my navigation buttons.  The problem is I have sub-folders which also include this control on their pages.  Therefore, how do I reference a url from outside and inside a sub-folder?  I was advised to use ~.  So in my topbar.ascx I have <li><a href="~/blog/default.aspx">Blog</a></li> which you would think would be ok.  However, when I view pages including my topbar.ascx inside a browser and rollover a link, my status bar shows:

localhost:xxxxx/websitename/blog/~blog/default.aspx

Why on earth is websitename/blog/ getting added to the front of the url??  Is this an IIS issue?  I'm hoping this will be resolved when I publish live but I will be hosting the site on a shared server so maybe I will have the same issue??

Please can someone advise?
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Yes this is only on my development machine so I thought that maybe when hosted using IIS the problem would disappear.  I'm setting up a new pc with Windows 7 so I can have IIS on my development machine (currently Vista :-().