.htaccess problem?

Hi there –

Sorry to bother you – I’ve installed WordPress on a site to act as a content management solutions for interviews of authors/artists I’m working on.

However, I seem unable to edit the permalink structure, and this means the entries simply 404.

There is a .htaccess file in the folder root – but for some readon, on the edit permalinks page, it doesn’t seem to recognise it, even though it’s CHMOD to 777.

I’ve manually entered the .htaccess as WP instructs, but still nothing.

The site is on an Apache/Linux machine, and can be found here: http://www.chronicles-network.com/interviews/

I’ve tried both fo the following permalink options:

/%post_id%/%postname%/
/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

Any suggestions as to what may be happening?

Many thanks for any replies.