i don't see a reason for the /page/ in the middle of the URL's.

http://mysite.com/page/search/
would be better as
http://mysite.com/search/

and
http://mysite.com/page/aboutme/
would be better
http://mysite.com/aboutme/

yes?

does anyone know if this is an easy fix? or hack?
perhaps a filter?

cheers!

You can reset mod_rewrite. Or you can figure out how to change your rewrite rules to not need the /page/ which you consider unnecessary.

You can modify the .htaccess file but then you need to be careful that you don't have pages and albums of the same name.

And, of course, the .htaccess needs to know which items are pages and which are albums.

thank you. i will look into it.