Old Site With Non-SEF Joomla Urls, Simple Rewrite to Wordpress SEF URLs

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EDIT: I dont know how to make the URLs not be concatenated

After hours of trying different configs, I just can't get this right. It should be so simple but I am evidentally doing it wrong. I tried using 301 Redirect but the querystring was messing it up (i think). I tried using mod_rewrite and escaping the querystring but that didnt work. I'm not looking for for a single expression to rewrite ALL URLs, I want to do them on a one by one basis.

Examples:

Here is an old URL: http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?op...=article&id=61

I want it to redirect to: http://www.mydomain.com/about-us/


Another example:

http://www.mydomain.com/?option=com_...layout=default

Redirect To

http://www.mydomain.com/need-to-know