Image cat URLs being created (in duplicate) automatically

I'm not sure if this is a bug but it's driving me crazy.

I have the Image module (with Gallery sub-module too) installed.

I have Image nodes going to "image/[nid]" -> working perfectly
I have Image Gallery cat pages going to "gallery/[tid]", also working perfectly. So I have a gallery at gallery/45 and it shows me the "Cats" gallery. But I also have image/tid/45 URLs being created which is a teaser list of image nodes, not the gallery itself. I haven't set this up using PA so I don't know where it's coming from.

Looking under URL aliases, I can see some type of double change is happening.

PathAuto URL --- System URL
gallery/45 ------ image/tid/45 (shows the gallery with 6x6 grid of photos)
image/tid/45 ------ taxonomy/term/45 (both URLs accessible, both showing teaser list of image nodes including description, etc)

at no place in the pathauto settings page have I manually set the image/tid/[nid] path...is that coming from the Image module itself or the Image Gallery module?

What seems very strange is that if I access /image/tid/45, I get the teaser list. If I access gallery/45, I get the gallery even though this system URL is the identical /image/tid/45 I saw teasers with before!