jubbing on "[Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Error?"

Edit file /home/xxxxxx/public_html/.htaccess and remove all lines between and including # BEGIN W3TC Page Cache and # END W3TC Page Cache markers.

I get the error above, but somehow when I check htaccess, the files do not exist. I made sure with my host and they cant see any errors popping up in error log either.

Any help on this?

http://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/