Getting the config right - PLEAE HELP

[ToonMariner]

OK I am having a problem on my development machine using mod rewrite in htaccess.  All works fine on the live server but I need to emulate this on my machine.

I am running apache 2.0.59 on winXP sp2 (plus all updates).

This is my .htaccess file...

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Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/admin/(.*)? /admin/$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule !\.(gif|jpg|png|css|pdf|mp4|mpg|mov|swf)$ index.php [NC,L]
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The only way I can get mod_rewrite to run successfully on my local dvelopment machin is to have the following in the httpd.conf

[code]
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
    ServerAdmin toonmariner_at_here.com
    DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/pcis"
    ServerName www.pcis.dev
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^/admin/(.*) /admin/$1 [NC,L]
    RewriteRule !\.(gif|jpg|png|css|pdf|mp4|mpg|mov|swf)$ /index.php [NC,L]
</VirtualHost>
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Problem being is that it isn't accessible on the server so I need to do it the .htaccess route.

I have

[code]
<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/pcis">
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>
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Which I was lead to believe tells apache to allow the htaccess file to set what ever config settings it chooses.

I would really appreciate some pointers here including which load_modules i must uncomment (obviously i have uncommented teh mod_rewrite one !)

Thank you for your time and efforts...