How to convert simplemenu paths to original taxonomy paths

Great module, but running into some trouble. SimpleMenu seems to have created new menu paths of the format: example.com/Topics/4/[!tid]

where "!tid" is the vocabulary term ID.

for all my taxonomy term pages, originally of the format: example.com/taxonomy/term/[!tid]

I don't mind the URL structure, which probably has real benefits, but these new URLs lead to different pages than their counterparts of the form taxonomy/term/[!tid]. This is a problem for me, because these new pages, although they have the same content, don't hook into the taxonomoy_term view, so the content is not formatted, at least not as it is meant to be.

Is there a patch or feature available to convert those menu paths back to the original format so that I can direct back to the original term pages that are styled?

Seems to be similar to the issue being discussed on a dhtml menu thread here: http://drupal.org/node/192493

Any ideas?