WordPress 3.1 removing ‘category’ from the slug

Is there a way to remove ‘category’ from the slug when viewing posts in a particular category in WordPress 3.1 without it breaking? My client is asking me to remove it, but it seems necessary – I get a Page Not Found error when using this plugin:

http://fortes.com/projects/wordpress/top-level-cats/

He also doesn’t want to just change it to another word…very frustrating…

Thanks,

osu

I didn’t test it myself, but maybe this tip could solve your problem:

If you would like
yoursite.com/category/projects/projectname/
to appear as
yoursite.com/projects/projectname/

Simply enter /. as the value for
Category base in the permalink
settings page.