First and foremost, thanks to all who replied here. I'm backing off of the directory ignores and just going with filenames in the regex ignore as those seem to work more consistently.
Shawn, I don't think that case and slash vs. backslash make a difference on Windows. I can't be definitive though as I'm not one of the developers and don't want to pretend to be one! My experience seems to be that they don't matter though (on Windows) I think that the slash vs. backslash should matter. I have only one last question, and it has to do with the regex. The wiki says that I should use "\." to match any character. Shouldn't that be "." to match any character and "\." to match a dot? Thanks again, all. This ossec newb appreciates all the comments that have come in today. -Bill
