If I own my own domain (which I do...) and I JUST wanted to prevent direct linking images in certain directories...can I do that somehow? Because I use my domain to host my own images in banner rotations, for my guild...etc...but it's an okay amount that my domain can handle...and I don't want to prevent direct linking of those images....

so you only want to prevent direct linking to images in, say, an /images folder or something along those lines? I believe if you put the .htaccess file in a directory, it will only affect that directory and all subdirectories.

so if you have this kind of set up:

/ - your main directory, that can have images direct linked to
/images - your images folder
/images/.htaccess - the .htaccess, since it's in the images folder, will only affect /images and /images/[whatever]/...

I hope that made some kind of sense... :P

Perfect sense! Thankyou, I'll try it!