[cobalt-users] Slow site afted added .htaccess file

[cobaltuser@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hi everyone, this is my first post to this list.
Please bare with bad spelling...... :)

I have a domain. (Weee)
It is hosted on Apache 1.3.20 and some sort of Cobalt siteadmin software
(Does CobaltRaQ say anything?)
I've managed to make a .htaccess file that validates any accounts 
on this
domain.

(My purpose is to have some sort of intranet solution)

The access works just fine exept:

IT IS DAMN SLOW.
Any page or file I open inside the secured directory takes forever 
to load.
I mistake the .htaccess to be configured wrong.
Seems that it check for validation for every file inside this directory.
Can i avoid the long loading time for every file?

Here is a copy of my .htaccess file:
#Access file
order allow,deny
allow from all
require valid-user site110
Authname "INTRANET"
Authtype Basic
AuthAuthoritative off

Oh. By the way..
speed on site outside the secured area is very high...


Hope someone can help me.

I'm a novice at this game .. So bare with me if i have writen anything
wrong....

Best regards
Kjartan