Damn Permalinks

Okay, so I’ve done about a weeks worth of research on this and I’m totally at a loss here.

I’ve got access to the server as far as FTP goes. I can CHMOD my .htaccess to 666 and back to 644.

I’ve manually created additional entries in the .htaccess as well as per some other ‘success’ stories I’ve read.

So now I’m totally stumped. It is a fresh install, and the major issue is NOT getting a constant 404.. it’s getting intermittent ones. Which only appear to be happening inside the admin panel for the most part.

I’ll click on a link in the admin panel to perform ANY action, and 40% of the time I’ll get the page that was supposed to be displayed. But all the other times I’ll get a stupid 404 page. I hit refresh a couple of times and it takes me to where it should have gone in the first place.

Right now, my .htaccess is exactly as wordpress wants it to be, because it created it.

Permalink selection: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

.htaccess code

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Any ideas here? I’m about to switch back to ‘ugly’ links and just deal with it.