[Mediawiki-l] Short URLs with PHP as CGI, CSS mangled

[Azurite]

ETA: Now it's trying to find 
http://www.seventh-star.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page, and I don't know 
why. There's nothing in either the .htaccess or the LocalSettings.php 
that says just "wiki" when it comes to defining a path or URL.
I am curious though, what is the purpose of the curly brackets in the 
values for some of these settings? The Manual seems to make it seem like 
they're necessary, but I'm not sure.

Here's my updated LocalSettings.php and .htaccess snippets:

$wgSitename         = "WikiFic";

$wgScript           = "$wgScriptPath/index.php";
$wgRedirectScript   = "$wgScriptPath/redirect.php";

## If using PHP as a CGI module, use the ugly URLs
$wgScriptPath        = "/wikific";
$wgArticlePath = "{$wgScript}/$1";

$wgStylePath        = "{$wgScriptPath}/skins";
$wgStyleDirectory   = "$IP/skins";
$wgLogo             = "$wgStylePath/common/images/wikific_logo.png";

$wgUploadPath       = "$wgScriptPath/images";
$wgUploadDirectory  = "$IP/images";

.htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^wikific/(.+)$ /wikific/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]
-Azurite