Yes, the modules would load on the next page even if they were not suppose to. I purged and cleaned my cache and also (not sure if this helped) went into manage extensions and made a few changes under the Content extension. Suffice it to say - it now works. If there is anything below that maybe I should change to run a smoother JoomSEF enabled site - please let me know. But everything seems to work.
My Settings Below:
Have the correct .htaccess file info (copy/pasted it) that is in my root since that's where my joomla site is.
Global SEF URLs Enabled
Apache mod_rewrite Enabled
JoomSEF Enabled
JoomSEF plugin Enabled
Creation of new URLs Enabled
DEFAULT:
Tooltip JoomSEF Enabled? Yes
Tooltip Disable creation of new SEF URLs? No
Tooltip Number duplicate URLs? Yes
Tooltip Replacement character -
Tooltip Page spacer character -
Tooltip Strip characters ,|~|!|@|%|^|*|(|)|+|<|>|:|;|{|}|[|]|---|--|..|.
Tooltip Trim friendly characters
Tooltip Use Title or Alias? Title Alias
Tooltip File suffix
Tooltip Default index file
Tooltip Page text JText::_('PAGE')-%s
Tooltip All lowercase? No
Tooltip Use index for sections and categories Yes
ADVANCED:
Tooltip Allow UTF-8 characters in URL Yes
Tooltip Exclude source info (Itemid) No
Tooltip Reappend source (Itemid) No
Tooltip Ignore multiple sources (Itemids) No
Tooltip Append non-SEF variables to URL No
Tooltip Be tolerant to trailing slash? Yes
Tooltip Redirect nonSEF URLs to SEF? No
Tooltip Use Moved Permanently redirection table? Yes
Tooltip Ask before saving URL to Moved Permanently table? Yes
Tooltip Do not remove SID from SEF URL? Yes
Tooltip Set server QUERY_STRING? Yes
Tooltip Parse Joomla SEO links? Yes
Tooltip Filter variable values? Yes
Tooltip Filter these words: http:// http// https:// https// www. @
Tooltip Variables to exclude from filtering:
Tooltip Prevent non-SEF variables from overwriting the parsed ones: Yes
Tooltip Custom non-SEF variables:
URL Source Tracing
Tooltip Enable
URL source tracing? Yes
Tracing depth: 3
PS: The only problem I still have is that if I type
mysite.com (exclude the www) instead of
www.mysite.com, I get logged out. Not sure how to fix that.