404 recorded in Apache logs only

Hi Fellow wordpress users!

I searched high and low all the 404’s posts and believe this to be unique.

I changed my permalinks to be /word/%categoryname%/%postname% and I started getting 404’s in my logs only. (I’m not talking about real 404’s because my URLs had changed) but 404’s on the new URLs. The thing is the pages load fine on the web. ie everything works perfectly, but pages are generating 404’s in the apache logs and the log says this: File does not exist: /home/website/wordpress/word

Its like its doing the RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d throwing a 404 then continuing on.

I’m using WP 2.0.2 (will upgrade soon) and using the default .htaccess, I’m using shared hosting so don’t have much control over apache.

Has anybody seen this before? or have a custom permalnk structure that is simlar to this and works?

Thanks in advanced for your time!