Thanks, for the tips.
I discovered it was the keys.
If you include the full url in your partials the $uri variable becomes /full_url
eg
<!--# include virtual="http://thisdomain.com/dssi/&partial=dothis" -->
$uri becomes:
/http://thisdomain.com/dssi/&partial=dothis
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