UrlRewrite htaccess confusion

I feel like I'm really close to a solution for the clean-url method in htaccess. I've successfully got it now so that: http://benchwarmersports.com/packages/basketball/2010/nba-all-star-game maps to: http://benchwarmersports.com/packages.php?category=basketball&year=2010&title=nba-all-star-game However, I'm finding that when I click on subsequent links from: http://benchwarmersports.com/packages/basketball/2010/nba-all-star-game that I land in a strange url-structure where it replicates the packages part of the url. Can someone tell me what I might need to change about my rewrite logic to fix this issue? I'm getting lost in the world of base urls and recursive rewrites... Present htaccess code: Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteOptions MaxRedirects=10 RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^packages/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ /packages.php?category=$1&year=$2&title=$3 [NC]