incorrect links in page.tpl.php

Fantastic theme, especially the transparencies!

However, there are 2 places in page.tpl.php where this code appears:
print $base_url . "/" . str_replace ( base_path() , "", check_plain(request_uri()) );

On my site, base_path() returns "/", so the result is to remove all "/"s from the url. "example.com/content/some-stuff" becomes "example.com/contentsome-stuff". That is not correct.
I removed the "/". str_replace(.... and it works correctly.
print $base_url . check_plain(request_uri());

Again, thanks for the great theme!