Photos and Albums to have Independant URL

Right now the structure of a album link is: http://www.alpineascent.com/dashboard/albums/item/7-test-album-2/user/josh

It would be great if it was reduced to: http://www.alpineascent.com/albums/item/7-test-album-2/user/josh

Basically I don't want to have to have the dashboard as part of the path. The cleaner the url, the better. I understand that the dashboard might be needed for displaying albums when no menu item exist for albums. Ideally it could use the "dashboard" when no menu item exist for albums. This way we have a "fall back method". Shorter URL's are simply better for sharing, use less storage when saving thousands of links, better for search engines, less likely to change, and are less to read when a user makes sure the site is "not a fake". (it's a long story, but I check them pretty often)

Another great benefit of allowing the admin to decide is that the path to the gallery can be decided by the admin. So for example rather than having mysite.com/dashboard/albums I could have mysite.com/photos. This allows us to craft the naming convention to what we use as the menu item name.