error with htaccess on xp/apache

[AtroxAngel]

Im runny XP pro with Apache 1.3.27 and i cant htaccess to run on my admin dir. ive been through my o"reilly book, web tutorials, all over, and cant figure out why its giving me this 500 Internal Server error. at first i thought maybe it couldnt access the absolute path i gave it so i tried putting the password file all over the place, forward and backword slashes, no luck at all
im using this in my .htaccess file:
AuthType Basic
AuthName GlowKraft Administration
AuthUserFile absolute_path

<Limit GET POST>
require valid-user
</Limit>

i dont think i have anything wrong here. could it be conflicting with something in my conf file? ive tried using AuthOverride Limit but no luck with that either.
pleas help

[AtroxAngel]

I just came to my senses and remembered apache has an error log, that helped me fix things right up, just had to change AuthName to /admin/
now I guess im just not clear on that command, I thought AuthName put a title on the password window, am I wrong here?