@slee – I tried turning off all my plugins and now the permalinks work. It’s always the damned plugins!!
@slee – did you have any luck. I’m having exactly the same problem and can’t work it out.
@sliceoflemon – I CHMOD the .htaccess files to 755 and let wordpress write the code itself so I don’t have to do the cutting, pasting and ftping.
I found an easy solution on this site http://www.grapethinking.com/wordpress-contact-form-7-plugin-landing-pag. I got rid of the line (93) that shows the success message : wpcf7ResponseOutput.addClass(’wpcf7-mail-sent-ok’);
and it’s working great. I hope the Contact Form 7 developers incorporate this into their next release. It’s such a great plugin, except for this flaw.
hope this helps,
elle