Right,

I've gone and purchased hosting and a script, but it turns out the script needs the Apache command "mod_rewrite" and the hosting is Zeus. the hosting company is USELESS (its names.co.uk by the way)

Before I start hunting for new scripts/hosting, I thought I'd check to see if there is an alternative.

I've read elsewhere that you can change the htaccess file script to perform the same function in a Zeus environment. Unfortunately this is as far is it goes, there are no example scripts out there or explanation of how to build one! not even in the Zeus documentation...

so could someone here PLEASE help me attempt this myself. There are only 2 htaccess files which are each quite short, so surely it's not that hard?

This is the first file:

#php_flag register_globals off
#php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
#php_value max_execution_time 210

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ ./index.php

please please please please please i'm a html/css web designer. im not even very savvy with php...

this from the drupal forum

http://drupal.org/node/46508

I don't understand what you're wanting to do. Could you elaborate? I'll try to help as much as possible. Off the top of my head, it looks like you're redirecting any request that's not a directory to index.php.