htaccess redirect problem

[damion]

I'm trying to redirect a web site to a different domain. For some reason, the URL that I put inside the htaccess for the new domain is altered when I try to go to the old domain.

 

It changes the new domain's URL when loaded in the browser from this:

http://www.newdomain.com/gdProfile.php?clientID=23

 

To this which is incorrect:

http://www.newdomain.com/index.php?clientID=noneOrNAN

 

I've tried the hosts cpanel redirect feature, and manually edited the .htaccess file, and both give the same results.

 

Here is what I used for the manual editing of the htaccess..

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/gdProfile.php?clientID=23/$1 [R=301,L] 

 

There is nothing else in the .htaccess file.

 

What on earth is causing this??

 

Thanks!