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[eluser]SitesByJoe[/eluser]
Glad you're finding a way to do what you want. Some in this forum would freak about manually hitting the database... whatever works though, right?

Like I said I was in the same situation and in the end I caved and just left the "pages" in the url.

There are other work-arounds as well. You could check for a ".html" in your route file and of it's there load the pages controller or something like that.

Maybe something like:

Code:

$route['(.*).html'] = 'pages';

Sorry, this may not be exactly right, but give it a try!