Mod Rewrite not working [solved]

Ok, so it took a fair while to sort this out, but no matter what I did with .htaccess, I couldn’t get the URL’s for this site to be SEF.
It seemed as if the mod_rewrite module wasn’t being loaded, but when I checked the config… it definitely was getting loaded.
In the end, all i needed to do was to make sure that I had the following set in my httpd.conf file:
AllowOverride All
It was previously set to AllowOverride None
Not entirely sure of the consequences of this, but hey the site’s (and all other dev sites on the server) working now!