YES; the above is good but i was told:

You need to rewrite all the URLs on the way through...
Then you don't need the BASE, but you *do* need to handle any subsequent requests.

because its looking for the pages on my URL rather than the one being requested; so i insert a base href in the print code so that everything looks good but then the server asks for a user and password.
HELP!! I really want to fix this problem.