.htaccess and mod_rewrite problem when re-configuring

Ok, I've had gallery running fine for almost two years. It's been on this server for over a year without any issues. Today I decided to switch a few things around, and I ran into a problem where gallery changed all my urls.

I went back into the configuration and it looked like Gallery was not obeying the .htaccess file, so I had my host add

<Directory /home/matt/public_html/chicks>
	AllowOverride Options FileInfo
</Directory>

to httpd.conf, to no avail. mod_rewrite is installed and working, but Gallery says that it isn't.

.htaccess is chmodded to 777.

Basically, it's saying that nothing is working, when I know for a fact that everything is.
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