Pb with gallery 1.4.1 & .htaccess invalid rewritebase op

I installed gallery 1.4.1 at the root of my web server and I got an error 500 internal server error. My Apache logs reports this error :

[Fri Nov 28 02:10:07 2003] [alert] [client 10.0.0.100]
c:/(...)/www/gallery/.htaccess: RewriteBase: argument is not a valid URL

and indeed I found in the .htacces :

Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase \/
(...)

I corrected the invalid line with
RewriteBase /

and it appears to work flawlessly...

Any comment ?

SaM.
PS: The french language file is full of small spelling mistakes...

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Gallery URL (example): http://www.my-gallery.com/
Gallery version: 1.4.1
Apache version: 1.3.28
PHP version (don't just say PHP 4, please): 4.3.4
Graphics Toolkit: Imagemagik
Operating system: WinXP Pro
Web browser/version (if applicable):