magic_qoutes_gpc and cobolt linux causing problems

I am hosted on a Linux cobalt machine running Apache/1.3.12 Cobalt release 10312100 and PHP 4.0.3pl1. I have two virtual hosted accounts on this computer. The problem I am having is this: I added a .htaccess file to the root web folder of one site, the file contains one line: php_value magic_quotes_gpc 1 Everything worked fine. I made another .htaccess file for the other site, and added it there, with the same line in it. Now, the second site causes a server misconfiguration error for any page requests. The first site still works fine. The only difference I can see is that there is a folder that is linked to Chilisoft ASP on the second virtualhost site. Has anyone had a similar experience with either Chilisoft or Cobalt Linux and magic_quotes? Thanks, Ari