druplal - embedded rewrite module and a root path

I've got an embedded version of gallery2 (cvs) in drupal 4.7 and I'm using the gallery rewrite module but there is an error in the embedded .htaccess file it populates.
I can fix the rewrite rule by hand and I don't *think* it's user error that's causing the fault.

My drupal site is at the root path of my website '/', with gallery2 standalone at '/gallery2'. (The standalone site works just fine with the rewrite rules)

The problem is that links to albums generated by gallery2 all have a trailing '/', but this is incorrectly caught by the embedded rewrite rule:

  RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /v/([^?]+)(\?.|\ .)
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
  RewriteRule .   /?q=gallery&g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_path=%1   [QSA,L]

The problem seems to be because the second RewriteCond is not anchored to the start of the path.
Modifying 'Htaccess.tpl' to output the second RewriteCond as:

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$

seems to fix the problem, without breaking the standalone install.

Sorry if this has been raised already, I searched but could not find.

That fixed it. Sorry to have wasted your time. Thanks.

I have to admit, I do remain a bit confused as to exactly what happened there as I was already using a very recent gallery.module from cvs and my gallery2 install was also recently pulled from svn.
I hadn't previously uninstalled the rewrite module or switched the gallery.module to automatic and back to manual again (auto doesn't work for me, I think because gallery2 isn't located under the drupal install on the filesystem) so am guessing that's what's fixed it.

Anyway, sorry again for the distraction, keep up the good work.