Attributes.Add Lameness

Had some trouble today with *.Attributes.Add and using an ampersand &.

The problem is Attributes.Add and here's what I found:

Using Reflector to trace through System.Web.UI.WebControlsWebControl.Attributes to see if it was doing any kind of encoding turns out that
System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlAttributeEncode is called on any text added via Attributes.Add. HtmlAttributeEncode turns & into & and turns double quotes (") into "

Lameness I say! Anyways the solution I used was to register a startup script and place my onClick in a function then on my attributes.add I just call the javascript function. Works well, and note that this happened to me on ASP.NET 1.1, not sure if it occurs in 2.0