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I'm having trouble getting the mod rewrite to work properly on a clean 4.2 suite install.

http://www.forgeofreason.com/forum/forum.php

It's set to mod rewrite.
vb is installed in the /forum/ directory.
Currently, there is nothing in the root directory, but I'd like to have the CMS at the root.
All the links (forum, what's new, usercp, blogs, etc...) work fine w/ the mod rewrite. However, it is only the Articles (or CMS) that doesn't work, and it returns a 404 page not found error. It's url is http://www.forgeofreason.com/forum/content.php

Did I do something wrong?

I did edit your sample htaccess by uncommenting 2 lines (but am not sure if I should have):

# If you are having problems or are using VirtualDocumentRoot, uncomment this line and set it to your forum component directory.
RewriteBase /forum/

# If you are having problems with the rewrite from content/ to content.php, uncomment this line to turn MultiViews off.
Options -MultiViews