mod_rewrite and .htaccess

Hi,

Can anyone help me with .htaccess and mod_rewrite on Apache?

I'm trying to use mod_rewrite to intercept calls for pages with .htm or
.html and serve a .php page instead.  I don't want to just change the page
names because of the search engines and any users who have bookmarked the
page.

I have followed the example in the Apache manual and while it works ok in
the root html directory on my Mandrake 8.0 test box, subdirectories cannot
be accessed and if I upload it to the server, NO pages are served up just
blocked/bad gateway.

My .htaccess file correctly handles error 404 to a custom page.

Please - I'm tearing my hair out! (and I didn't have much left before!)

Many thanks in advance,

Mark Harvey
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