modrewrite help

[ToonMariner]

Hi people,

I am creating a site with friendly urls. I need to STOP redirection for all files in the /admin/ directory.

This is what I have but it aint working....

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule /admin/home.php(.*)? /admin/home.php$1
    RewriteRule !\.(gif|jpg|png|css|pdf)$ /index.php

so basically this should redirect all requests to index.php except those that contain /admin/home.php. This url could have any number of parameters passed to it and will also have to deal with post data.

Would it be helpful if I place a htaccess file in the admin dir with engine off?

Many thanks in advance.