phranque - 7:49 am on Jul 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

Does .htaccess behave in the same way a CSS does, meaning, it cascades and cancel the previous code as it's read?

it is difficult to generalize about the order of processing for rewrite directives.

I can't seem to puzzle out the problem. Perhaps "index" is seen as part of the query string in this URL? http://www.example.com/index?c0=139&cat_id=139&level=1

the query string always starts with the "?".

what is the response you get using the latest suggested directives?
any clues in the server logs perhaps?