can you clirify this for me?

"and since I am just a n00b I have to ask to set my mind at ease. mod_rewrite is basically redirecting right? how is that good for SEO? for the bots I mean. For the humans I can see. But from what I've read redirecting is bad minus those few that are good like if you want to exclude sites from being indexed and having 40something redirects."

start up..I've been here 2 months....its been running since August last year. Boss has just started another company...online radio station ...that is getting the funding/marketing/events attention. NOT online marketing. offline.