are you all set with this yet? you really should contact your webhost about this, servers are setup differently - depending on your server's httpd configuation, you may have to add in extra lines or it may not even be possible to use .htaccess files!!!

Your webhost should be helping you with this as they know their servers and should know how to implement htaccess files.

If you cannot get in touch with them and still need help, you can get me on icq 118860760 and I can try to assist however I can.

cheers,
Luke