SOLVED - Moving Drupal to a new HOST - NameServers not updated yet

Hi,

I had my site working on an old host perfectly.

I am now in the process to move to a new VPS at Servint. I have backed up all directories as well as DB from my old host, and copied and extracted on the VPS.

The first problem I have is that the new url of my site is weird.
old URL: http://www.domain.com/ - Drupal site worked perfect.
new URL: http://ip/~domain - on this Drupal only shows the front page. Every link that is press from the page get's me to a 404 page of the Apache server.

The url on the links are wrong, e.g.: http://ip/~domain/link - off course there is nothing physical in that location.

WHAT ELSE DID I TRY
* In the sites/default/settings.php I tried to uncomment
$base_url = 'http://ip/~domain'; // NO trailing slash!
this did not

* In www folder .htaccess
rewrite engine is on
RewriteBase /

# Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'node.php?id=x'.
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]+)$
#RewriteRule node.php index.php?q=node/view/%1 [L]

# Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'module.php?mod=x'.
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^mod=([^&]+)$
#RewriteRule module.php index.php?q=%1 [L]

# Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?q=x'.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

# Saar 20090304 - rewrite /a/VLUE to /a/p.php?id=VALUE
RewriteBase /
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [NC]
# RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301]
# RewriteRule ^a/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)?$ a/p.php?id=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^a/(.*)$ a/p.php?id=$1 [R=301,L]

Again, not helping.

If I try: http://ip/~domain/?q=user I get a Drupal page not found error, with a search page

Also, I am unable to login with any user - I get Apache 404 page. with the following message
404 Not Found

The server can not find the requested page:

ip/~domain/en/node?destination=node (port 80)

As long as I am unable to verify that the new VPS works, I will not update my NS information, so this is crucial.

would appreciate ALL the help you can give me.

thanks