Welcome to DNN Support. You, like many before you, have found just how valuable these forums can be. Anyway, all kidding aside...
It is my understanding that permalinks exist for each item in the repository. Please refer to this post. That post says that you can put [PERMALINK] in a repository template, but it is my understanding that this link should work regardless of whether it is displayed in the template or not.
I'm currently working on a similar problem. There is another solution for this same problem, but I've yet to get it to work, if I do, I'll come back and post what I find.
Sorry I couldn't get to you sooner.
HTH