bbbarry on "WordPress Address (URL) trailing slash issue?"

I have a domain http://redsandstonehill.net registered with Just-the-Name & I have a question about web forwarding.

I have some server space with ipage.com:

http://mypages.ipage.com/

J-T-N require a trailing slash.

I have installed wordpress in here:

http://mypages.ipage.com/reds/

& I have pointed my domain forwarding at this address & my blog page seems to function ok. However I want my readers to use & see my own domain, redsandstonehill.net. Within WordPress's general settings I can change this - I understand that I have to put the new url into "WordPress Address (URL)" but I cannot have a trailing slash, so "Site Address(URL)" appears as:

http://mypages.ipage.com/reds

I suspect it is this which has led to some 404s within WordPress admin because it is looking for:

http://www.redsandstonehill.net/reds

ie adding another "reds" because of the trailing slash. So J-T-N says there must be a slash, & WordPress says there must not be.

I've read some other forum entries & some Codex pages, but I'm still new to all this & I wonder if i am missing something obvious.

Thanks!
bbbarry