WordPress MU

Hey all,

Having a recurring problem, site wide and pretty systemic to folder structure. I had been running 1.5.1 and was upgrading to 2.6. After uploading all the files, as per my usual upgrade path, I noticed the following:

Anything that 'links' to the site's root blog stopped working -- photo gallery (tan tans), permalinks (using the year/month/day method), uploaded media (files/...) -- all of it stopped working.

I can fix permalinks by using the default setting (?p=123), but that doesn't really solve my problem.

Anyone else face this? It's driving me nuts. I'm not a big person, and I already punched a wall. :P

Help.

-Chow

And I have tried this as well:
http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3173&replies=3#post-19388

deleted by me.

Contents of my htaccess.dist:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase BASE/

#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>

That's the .htaccess.dist file, which is a SAMPLE file. What is your actual .htaccess file?

Mr. Brian -- I actually just deleted everything off the server and started from a backup. Thanks for inquiring. :)

I got it all working again -- like the web-equivalent of CTRL-ALT-DELETE. :)