Hi folks, I’m new here. Thinkeric’s solution worked for me, and I wanted to make it permanent. The code that writes these rules for .htaccess is in /wp-includes/classes.php. Look for ‘class WP_Rewrite’, and the definitions start from there. There’s four arrays defined before the first function. You should be most concerned with ‘$rewritereplace’. This corresponds directly to ‘$rewritecode’ above it. In my install (1.5.1.2; I’m not sure if it’s different for 1.5.0 or 1.5.1), category is the 9th item in the array. I changed that from ‘(.+?)’ to ‘([^/]+)’ and it works fine now…
…except for one thing. On the indiviual post pages, the text of the post isn’t showing up. I think it has something to do with the_content() reading the URL, I’m not sure.
