Collection Pagination Problem

Greetings, it's Nick and I'm back again about that jewelry site... I discovered that the pagination of my "Rings" Collection is not working properly.

Here is my Collection call:

$categories = array();
if (perch_get('collection')) { $categories[] = 'collection/' . perch_get('collection'); }
if (perch_get('style')) { $categories[] = 'style/' . perch_get('style'); }
if (perch_get('type')) { $categories[] = 'type/' . perch_get('type'); }

perch_collection('Rings', array(
    'category' => $categories,
    'category-match' => 'all',
    'template' => 'rings.html',
    'count' => 24,
    'paginate' => true,
));

And here is my pagination code in the rings.html template

<perch:if exists="paging">

    <div class="container">
        <div class="paging">
          <span class="page-of">Page <perch:content id="current_page" type="hidden" /> of <perch:content id="number_of_pages" type="hidden" /></span>
          <perch:if exists="not_first_page">
            <a href="<perch:content id="prev_url" type="hidden" encode="false" />">Previous</a>
          </perch:if>
          <perch:content id="page_links" encode="false" type="hidden" />
          <perch:if exists="not_last_page">
            <a href="<perch:content id="next_url" type="hidden" encode="false" />">Next</a>
          </perch:if>
        </div>
    </div>

  </perch:if>

What is happening is that when I select the "next" link, it will go to "page=2" but the query string from the original call will not persist. The only query string is now "?page=2". Furthermore, when I select "next" again, it will only repeat the "?page=2" string. When I select the "Previous" link, it once again stays on page 2.

I brought up the copy of this site I still have built with regular Perch and the pagination works perfectly. The query string persists and all.

I'm sorry, this is a terrible weekend to have trouble I know! Thank you very kindly for help!