much apprecated.. .. I have something similar to that now. heres what I have now..
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# permissions.
#
Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
AllowOverride ALL
# SSI confiuration added to default file
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks +Includes ExecCGI
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
AddType text/html .shtml
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AddHandler server-parsed .html
AddType text/html .html
#ScriptAlias commented out to allow more restrictive cgi handling
#
Alias /cgi-bin/ "c:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/cgi-bin/"
# "c:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
# CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
#
Options ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .pl .cgi
so does this stuff look right?