Hey Jan,
I hear what you're saying mate..what I was after would've been ideal if it was achievable but having categories plugged into the url wouldn't hurt that much I guess...

anyway, thanks a lot for your help mate...

cheers..

Hi Jan,
Thank you very much for your reply mate. Let's have a look at it again:

Point 3) I don't want multiple categories on the menu to be highlighted at the same time. I want either Category A or Category B to be highlighted depending which Category page you came to the Product A page from. So if I come from Category B, i want Category B to be highlighted not Category A or Not Category A & B. At the moment Category A is always highlighted. If I keep product URLs to the following format then everything works fine:
www.mydomain.com/products/CATEGORY-NAME/PRODUCT-NAME.html

But as I said, I am hoping to have the following URL without the CATEGORY-NAME:
www.mydomain.com/products/PRODUCT-NAME.html

So if I have option "2a" setup in the configuration then will the above scenario work?

UPDATE
I've changed the URL type from the config (I've set "Add categories to URL" to No. Hope this is right.) and now it has created 2 urls for 2 Categories for the same product. Like the following:

www.mydomain.com/products/PRODUCT-A.html
www.mydomain.com/products/PRODUCT-A-2.html

And I am sure, if I change the product URLs manually now (for both to read www.mydomain.com/products/PRODUCT-A.html) then it will be back to square one. Or will it?

UPDATE 2
Yap, as expected. After changing the URL manually (now both URLs are same in the DB), it came back to square one. Again, Category A is selected and highlighted no matter which category page you come from.

Is there any way I can achieve what I want? Thanks in advance mate.

Not sure if this has been discussed anywhere before. I searched but couldn't find it. Please point me to the right direction if this topic already exists.

Anyway, I've an online shop built in Joomla and Virtuemart and I bought Artio which I think is worth every penny. I couldn't be any happier with this plugin specially for virtuemart. Everything works like a charm except this one issue. I've single product but multiple URL, which is not ideal of course. This is my scenario:

I"ve "Product C" which belongs to both "Category A" and "Category B". My product URLs are currently like this:

www.mydomain.com/products/CATEGORY-NAME/PRODUCT-NAME.html

So, for "Product C" I've 2 different URLs. I changed all product urls to www.mydomain.com/products/PRODUCT-NAME.html to avoid multiple URLs for the same product and it works too except a slight but to me a big issue.

Now what happens is, whenever I select "Product C", in the breadcrumbs it shows the product is under "Category A", even if I come to that product page from "Category B". Even the "Category A" is always highlighted on the left side bar category menu when I get to that product page.

This is not what I want. I want "Category B" should be highlighted on the left side bar category menu and breadcrumb should reflect the same.

Is there anyway to achieve this? I'd really appreciate your advice and help.

O, I manually modified the SEF URLs.
Waiting for all your responses.

Cheers.