and...i figured it out thanks to some input from Ianomed

I have yet to find a URL that this has an adverse affect on, but if someone finds one please let me know
How To:
1) Open /admincp/articlebot_admin.php
2) Do a find for:
PHP Code:
print_input_row('<b>RSS File Path</b><br />URL to the RSS XML feed.', 'rss_path', $rss_feed['rss_path']);
And replace with:
PHP Code:
print_input_row('<b>RSS File Path</b><br />URL to the RSS XML feed.', 'rss_path', html_entity_decode ($rss_feed['rss_path']));
Save and upload

Pretty simple, it uses html_entity_decode to convert the html entities to their applicable characters. It's working for me so far and is rendering valid URL's now!