SSI and .htaccess

Hi, I am wondering if anyone can help.

I have a new dedicated server as I am trying to get html files to be parsed for ssi. shtml files are already parsed succesfully.

Basically, i want to do this with .htaccess in the root of a virtual domain by adding the command

AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html

to the .htaccess file.

This had not worked so I assume that .htaccess is not working. I am now trying to find out why. I checked in httpsd.conf to see what to change and I changed:

AllowOverride NONE
to
AllowOverride ALL

in this section:

# This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
# override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo",
# "AuthConfig", and "Limit"
#
AllowOverride ALL

and I also changed

Order deny,allow
Deny from all

to

I then rebooted the server, however SSI calls are still not being parsed in .html files.

e.g. check http://www.freeontheweb.com/banner3.htm compared to http://www.freeontheweb.com/banner3.shtml

any ideas on what i need to do? thanks