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I use 2 different sitemaps and submit them both to Google and the other search engines

No they all get crawled and considered for indexing providing that you don't have too many URLs in the file and the file loads for Google. I always put the homepage first though, and i break out sitemap files into sections of the site because my site is millions of pages. You can leave the priority tag out of the sitemap.xml.