I'm not 100% postive offhand if you can use mod_rewrite on a shared-hosting server... Unless you have a dedicated server, or the web host for a shared server will allow .htaccess files for individual sites.

cscgal, are you using a .htaccess file for the mod_rewrite commands, or are they located directly in the httpd.conf file on the server? I know there are some limits to the uses of a .htaccess file. I'm just not sure if mod_rewrite is allowed or not... that's why I ask.

This PHP solution also solves the problem of having to manually set up each link or URL you want to modify to be more search friendly. Whenever new information is submitted to my database, new pages are created automatically, and applied to the search friendly URLs.

In my application, it's really only one PHP script "search" that appears to google to be more than 250,000 pages because of the link structure... and the content is unique on each of those pages depending on the variables passed in the URL.

I hope that made some sense.