Some of the software that I install from Fantastico, some of it like Joomla and SMF, have a setting where you can make pages "google friendly".  I know what that means, but they tell me something about apache.  I've heard of apace but I don't know how to modify it so I can use the "google friendly pages" settings they offer.

Hope this all makes since.

It used to be that search engine robots/spiders couldn't handle "dynamic" URLs (filename.php?var=value&var=value) and needed URLs recast as "static". This is no longer true. I wouldn't bother with it, but you can read up on it in the Search Engine Optimization board. As wektech said, your .htaccess file will need to be modified to map the static URLs back into dynamic URLs, and some packages may produce a chunk of code to drop into .htaccess (or even modify it themselves).

Can a moderator or administrator please move this thread to Search Engine Optimization?

Cool.  I'll be sure to read up on it.