WibbleWobble - 10:20 am on Jan 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

Search engines won't index the page because of the "?" in the URL. So, I switch to using Apache's [...]

This is an arcane idea; all the major search engines are thoroughly adept at handling query strings, usually to two or three variables.

Also, for semantics sake, it would surely be a good idea to maintain extensions for your various code files, so you can see at a glance which language they purport to be in. You could easily hide the exntension through php code and an Apache RewriteRule.