Actually, it's not blank, but does not appear to make a call to mod-rewrite which is enabled on my server:

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName theswingtown.com
AuthUserFile /home/theswing/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/theswing/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

Also, see more even after upgrading to 6.1.1, my forum is still gorfed and looks like it has a coding error (there are brackets and such around the headers) http://www.theswingtown.com/orca/

Suggestions?