@ Damon
The short answer is that I’m aware of this “conflict” between using the category slug and the category ID to query the results. I do have some code, currently disabled, that deals with this but it needs more work before being “turned on”.
Right now the options are:
Turn off the category select in cMap and use the category widget from the Widget Pack. This probably the best option as it’ll make it very easy for search engines to index the directory. The links it create a all “pretty” permalinks.
Or add force_home='true' to the shortcode. I have not personally tested this, but it should default back to the page permalink with the query vars when switching categories.
I removed the site you had cMap registered to, you should now be able to activate the support license.
Hope that helps, please let me know.
My sincerest apologies for overlooking this post and not replying in a timely manner!
