.htaccess stops css from loading

[eluser]jblack199[/eluser]
I ended up using the .htaccess i posted above and it's working beautifully... being that this is going to be a full blown redistributable CMS just so I can say I did it, having everything routed through CI will be beneficial if i decide to distribute it to the masses as an alternative to joomla, wordpress or other bloated CMS's which options that most end-users wont use, cant use, or if they do use have the issue of breaking the entire site due to lack of knowledge of the function(s).