As an alternative to WP No Base Permalink have look at WP No Taxonomy Base(extended version by Marko Heijnen) which is an enhanced version of http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-no-taxonomy-base/

Off-topic:
@WPTavernCrew What do you think about the big portion of abandoned plugins in the WP.org repo? A topic worth writing about? No way to transfer ownership if dev is not reachable at all.