Links within paginated results

[eluser]tonanbarbarian[/eluser]
Not 100% clear what the problem actually is.
It seems to me you are having trouble working out how to create the edit and delete links?
Unfortunately the CI pagination is very simple, and does not support creating links for you.
Most people just create the edit and delete links exactly as you have and force the user to go back to the start of the list afterwards.
Another option though is to extend the pagination class and have it store some information in the session about what page it is currently on. That way after a delete or edit when you come back to the list of paginated records you can still be on the same page you were previously

I have built this myself but I cannot yet show you an example of it because the project I am using it in is not finished and once it is I will be releasing some of the code I used for others to benefit from.