Thanks for the reply - unfortunately none of your suggestions do anything to fix my issue.
1. I don't want to use "Remove Trailing Slash" as I have thousands of links coming into my site with the urls that have a trailing slash on them - changing to no trailing slash would diminish the value of all these links for SEO Purpses. Also, from what I understand, the proper format for a directory is to have a trailing slash whereas files DO NOT have a trailing slash.
2. I have looked into using mod_rewrite - the problem is that it will add a trailing slash to ALL files which I don't want either) as I mentioned above, I don't want trailing slashes on my files - only on my directories)
3. I would be more than happy to pay for your support if I thought it would fix my problem. But it doesn't sound like you have a viable solution at this point.
So, it seems my only choice is to wait for you to fix the component or switch to a new SEF Component (which would be a real bummer at this point)
As a long time happy user, I would hope this fix is something you would give top priority. Right now your component is creating duplicate content - which is terrible if a site wishes to rank in the search engines, which is half the reason to use SEF URL's in the first place.
Thanks