When permalinks default, ALL pages look like index; Custom creates 500 Server Er

  • PLEASE HELP ME! I’m going insane!

    Things you should know:
    1. I am on a Brinkster server. (I normally use GoDaddy without ANY of these problems.)
    2. It appears that Brinkster blocked WordPress from installing its own .htaccess, which seems to the be the origin of these problems:
    3. When I attempt to view a page while using DEFAULT permalinks, it shows the page’s permalink in the address bar, but it looks just like the index page. And I’m not even talking the index page of the template, but the index page of the website root itself (which, yes, can be different–I did this for another site)
    4. When I attempt to view a page while using CUSTOM permalinks (for example, with %postname%), it causes a 500 SERVER ERROR. ???!!!
    3. I have tried multiple versions of content of the .htaccess file and none work. (See below.)

    .htaccess I have tried…

    # BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

    and

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

    PLEASE. PLEASE. HELP ME…

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