There is another unresolved issue described at the link below, that I think this might resolve (if I can fix it).
For a server I’m using a Network Solutions Unix hosting package. I have set .htaccess to be writable.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/106606?replies=2
Since no one seems to be able to help with this one, here’s a question that might have an easier answer, and might even answer this one: If once-upon-a-time I set the permalinks to something other than the default (ugly) type, then reversed that (back to default), was some switch set that makes these error messages come up?