First of all, I must say that Alek_2_0 is a GREAT THEME!

The current theme used at the http://www.seoposition.com/ site seems to be
a little "tweaked" version of the Alek_2_0 theme though.

I'm particularly interested in how you achieve the following 2 things:

1) How to strip the vocabulary names form the URL aliases? For example:
Marketing Tools vocabulary has Affiliate Tools. It was supposed to be accessible as http://www.seoposition.com/marketing-tools/affiliate-tools, however this URL returns "page not found" and the URL that works is actually http://www.seoposition.com/affiliate-tools - "marketing-tools" vocabulary name is stripped.
- Is it a theme "tweak" or a special module is used for that?
- Are special URL aliases created for that?

2) There are very nice Avatars (of people) with all the posts.
- Is it a theme "tweak" or a special module is used for that?
- How did you "tweak" you theme to achieve that?
- Mind sharing the code snippet that does it?

Thank you very much.