I need a bit of help and hope someone can get this worked out.

I installed HTMLAREA Image manager many moons ago and it did not work when initially installed. I played with the htaccess file and got it to work.

Recently I restored my cart from a backup and now the image manager is goofing once again. I've tried temporarily removing the htaccess file to make sure the manager still works and it does.

I've also tried directly accessing an image from the images folder in the browser using a url like mywebsite/mystore/images/image.jpg and it shows up.

I tested a theory that something inside the folder is causing the htaccess to block access. ( htacces is doing it's job ) I edited the htaccess and removed the extension jpg and retried directly accessing the image. The result was of course a 403 error as expected.

So I believe the image manager is working right but the htaccess is blocking something.

What do you think?