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I just need to make an a href="#"--but this always loads my home page!

Is that a short-cut for home page link or something?

I've even tried enclosing it in {literal} tags--it seems nothing is done to it by CMSMS, but regardless, when someone clicks an a href="#" it goes to home page. The source code (rendered, to visitor) shows this:

href="#"

I tried using "javascript:Void" but this blocks the javascript behavior I need to occur.

Any advice?

leads you to home page, because You have set to your homepage.
If you don't use pretty url's - edit your template and replace {metadata} by {metadata showbase=false}

YOU DID IT!

thank you. That should have been obvious I guess, but I forget all the things that tag does!