Redirects from cPanel conflict with drupal htaccess redirects

Standard caveat: I'm a designer, not a programmer or sysadmin, so the answer to this may be obvious to some but I'm afraid I'm at a loss for how to fix it.

I recently moved my site from a /drupal subdirectory to the site root. Using cPanel's "redirect" dialog, I redirected mysite.com/drupal ==> mysite.com. I also set a wildcard so that, for example, mysite.com/drupal/news would redirect to mysite.com/news. In addition, I set some redirects for pages from the former site to the equivalent pages on the new site, e.g., mysite.com/hire.php ==> mysite.com/jobs.

The basic mysite.com/drupal ==> mysite.com is working, but none of the others are. I sent a support ticket to the (budget) webhost who replied "your drupal .htaccess has so many redirects in it its causing things not to work." Looking at the .htaccess file, I see this:

# Various rewrite rules.

RewriteEngine on

# If your site can be accessed both with and without the 'www.' prefix, you
# can use one of the following settings to redirect users to your preferred
# URL, either WITH or WITHOUT the 'www.' prefix. Choose ONLY one option:
#
# To redirect all users to access the site WITH the 'www.' prefix,
# (http://example.com/... will be redirected to http://www.example.com/...)
# adapt and uncomment the following:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
# RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
#
# To redirect all users to access the site WITHOUT the 'www.' prefix,
# (http://www.example.com/... will be redirected to http://example.com/...)
# uncomment and adapt the following:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
# RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

# Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory or in a
# VirtualDocumentRoot and the rewrite rules are not working properly.
# For example if your site is at http://example.com/drupal uncomment and
# modify the following line:
# RewriteBase /drupal
#
# If your site is running in a VirtualDocumentRoot at http://example.com/,
# uncomment the following line:
# RewriteBase /

# Rewrite URLs of the form 'x' to the form 'index.php?q=x'.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

followed by what appears to be the rewrite rules written by cPanel:

# $Id: .htaccess,v 1.90.2.3 2008/12/10 20:04:08 goba Exp $
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^drupal\/?(.*)$ "http\:\/\/mysite\.com\/$1" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^about\.php$ "http\:\/\/mysite\.com\/about\-ica" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^hire\.php$ "http\:\/\/mysite\.com\/jobs" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^contact\.php$ "http\:\/\/mysite\.com\/contact" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^find\.php$ "http\:\/\/mysite\.com\/member\-directory" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^join\.php$ "http\:\/\/mysite\.com\/join\-us" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^resources\.php$ "http\:\/\/mysite\.com" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^programs\.php$ "http\:\/\/mysite\.com\/calendar" [R=301,L]

Is this a simple matter of cutting and pasting cPanel's rewrites into the IfModule section? Or is something more elaborate required?

Thanks in advance for any recommendations.