Contact cannot access own contact record

In v1.7, an authenticated user cannot access his/her own contact information directly(*) (example.com/redhen/contact/%) unless the "Access Redhen Contacts" permission is checked. Once that permission is checked, the user can directly access their own information - as well as every other users', which is not acceptable for this client.

(*) - "directly" via the given url, as opposed to "indirectly" via the user's "My Account" page.

I had a couple of older test installations of Redhen set up (both v1.6) so I did the following:

1 - ensured an authenticated user could directly access their account info in the v1.6 installs
2 - made sure all permissions matched between all 3 installs
3 - disabled all modules except "redhen", "redhen_fields" & "redhen_contact" in all 3 installs

I then upgraded one of the v1.6 installs to v1.7 - now users cannot directly access their contact info in that install as well.

My use case requires that users be able to manually connect to either a pre-existing organization (or create one then connect to it). The only way I can see for this to be possible is via the redhen/contact/% page. If there is an alternative way for a user to make their own connection then the above-described issue should be priority "normal". If there isn't, then I'd definitely consider it to be "major", as it will be blocking a rather key bit of functionality for my client.

If you need more info, let me know what and I'll be happy to provide it.

Thanks!