Link Protection .htaccess not working, blocks self

Any help would be appreciated.

Basically I used dreamhost's link protection to block hot linking to some images on my blog at thefinalepisodes.com/pics/anime/

Dreamhost's tool generates a .htaccess file like so in that directory:

### Generated by Dreamhost. DO NOT modify!!! ###

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https?://(www\.)?thefinalepisodes.com/?.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https?://(www\.)?*.feedburner.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https?://(www\.)?bloglines.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https?://(www\.)?feedburner.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https?://(www\.)?google.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https?://(www\.)?images.google.*/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https?://(www\.)?msn.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https?://(www\.)?yahoo.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|mp3|mpg|avi|mov)$ - [F,NC]

################################################

which is pretty standard stuff. dreamhost panels notes that I don't have to include my own domain, which is evidently included. problem is, when I head to my own blog at thefinalepisodes.com, the images are blocked when accessed from my own domain?

I don't write on the blog much anymore, so it's not a terribly big deal. but if I remove protection, the various myspace, forums, and other blogs hot linking will eat up bandwidth...

is this an issue with the wordpress rewrite rules messing with it?

there's a wordpress generated .htaccess placed in the main directory:

# 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 help or info would be appreciated. thanks!

well nvm on the issue. I found a hot link prevention plugin for wordpress blogs. seems to work fine for current needs.