[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] $15 Paypal if get this working NextGEN Help with .htaccess

I had someone make me a plugin that turns nextgen into per picture commenting but in order for it to work it has to be set up like this as example: http://www.mysite.com/?page_id=5&album=1&gallery=1
but i have mine set up as http://www.mysite.com/photos/ and it creates a conflict. It tries to run it as http://www.mysite.com/?album=1&gallery=1&pid=1 and it kicks out the /photos/ and ?page_id=5 part.

my current .htaccess show this

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

The guy who built this sent me the following and I cant get it to work.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^photos/([^/]*)$ index.php?page_id=$1&album=$2 [L]

I dont know a whole lot with .htaccess codes so if anyone has an idea on where this needs to be tweaked it would be greatly appreciated.