Ah! For the record, I found out there's a hack for this already. Didn't think there would be, but there you go.
By rights I shouldn't be using CuteNews at all, but it's just so dang convenient. I mean, you command so much control over it... (when you've nabbed a few people who can hack code)
Interestingly, however, as nice as those cleaned-up URLs are, I just realized that
this hack causes all my CSS'd images and links to be horribly broken, since all the links are relative paths and the news listings are set to paths like /postpage/. Whoopsie.
I hadn't thought of that before. I wonder what I can do about that?
Well, there are too many things wrong with that hack that I hadn't considered, so until I can fix it myself I'm not using it lol...