[eluser]jblack199[/eluser]
what i did was put my css, images and js in an inc folder in the root and use .htaccess similar to what appleboy posted above, except i changed this line:
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|css|images|robots\.txt)
to
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|inc|robots\.txt)
makes for cleaner file structure imo.