[steven]

well thanks to auto, I got this working. Anyways I have my forums setup like www.mydomain.com/forums so the following is my .htaccess file

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)/?$ forumdisplay.php?forumid=$1&s=$2 [L] 
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?threadid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?threadid=$1&perpage=15&pagenumber=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/$ forumdisplay.php?forumid=$1&daysprune=1000&sortorder=&sortfield=lastpost&perpage=40&pagenumber=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^[ft]([0-9]+)/s([^/]*)/(.+)$ /$3 [L]