Rewrite rules - .htaccess issue [Blocked urls] and wrong format.

Hi everyone, I am having an issue with the current .htaccess access. The developer which I am working with, did some work on it but it still not 100% working and also i found that Google is not indexing my homepage new urls.

Basically this site coded in cakephp framework http://bit.ly/yXOok beta was released just 3 days ago. The first day, we put beta, we had our forum image server all blocked http://bit.ly/OzzGy not it is not blocked anymore. Here is the current .htaccess file that i use in the root but it is causing issues. What the developer did and told me but he is very new to these type of rules, he told me that he wrote the rules to ignore the forum directory so it doesn't get blocked by the homepage script which is based on cakephp

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forum/(.*)
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cache/(.*)
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cache/(.*)

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/chan/(.*)
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^forum\.nihonomaru\.com


    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?nihonomaru.com$
    RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?nihonomaru.com$
    RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]

    #RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
    #RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

I want to make sure of few things:

1. Are these rules written correctly?

2. These urls is blocking my gallery directory and i can't access it http://bit.ly/bhhqMM

3. It is been few days and Google has not indexed any new urls related to the homepage, My forum is very popular so there is always indexing but with my homepage it is not indexing any of the pages, i think these .htaccess rules are blocking google in a way or another or causing issues. To prove this, i have my beta also installed somewhere else and it did get indexed all 2k urls the first day, but on that other place we are simply using these rules below but if we use it on my current site, it will block the forum.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   #RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
   #RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

Thanks for taking the time and helping.

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