Please Help: website domain name question(s)

First let me get this out in the open: I'm not computer savvy and I'll probably end up using fancy technical computing terms inappropriately. For this, I apologize.
Okay, I have a relatively simple goal (at least I hope it's simple).
All I want is for the little website I created in iWeb and have hosted on .Mac (perhaps "hosted" is the wrong word?) to display the domain name I've given it.
Some potentially helpful info:
My website is called: thegirlandrhino.com
I purchase my domain name at Namecheap.com
At Namecheap.com I utilized the URL forwarding feature -- forwarding http://web.mac.com/thegirlandrhino to http://thegirlandrhino.com
Now then, all of this is works just fine.
However, when I type "www.thegirlandrhino.com" into my address bar, the name changes into: http://web.mac.com/thegirlandrhino/iWeb/TheGirlandRhino/181C45AC-5290-11DB-9315- 001124783C74.html
I find this obnoxious and unsightly.
Does anyone know I can get my site's URL to maintain its "form?"
Thanks Much!
g and r
12 in powerbook   Mac OS X (10.3)  

Hey, good job on getting your domain forwarding setup! The feature that you are now looking for is called "Masking". It will let your domain name stay in the address bar no matter what page on your site you surf to, so that all that gibberish URL stays hidden away.
I just took a look at namecheap.com and see that they are calling this feature "cloaking". Just enable this feature from your domain name account and hide away your long .Mac URL...
http://www.namecheap.com/learn/domain-registration/domain-features.asp

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