Cobalt RaQ and Clean URLs problem

Hello All,

I have come across an interesting little problem. I am working on Cobalt RaQ servers and they seem to have an issue with clean URL's; specifically www.domain.com/admin. While www.domain.com/?q=admin works fine, www.domain.com/admin pops up a username and password box every time.

Having done a bit of hunting, it seems that the hosts reserve the admin directory for their own purpose [see http://drupal.org/node/21396#comment-38114 ]. So I either don't use clean URL's (not really an option as I want them for building image galleries) or I find some way to change 'admin' to something else. I don't have the option to switch hosts either.

So my question is, is there a way I can make Drupal rename the admin section to something else without having to hack at the core and every other module I use?

All suggestions welcome and I thank you all in advance for your time.