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no. just seems like keyword level penguin "penalty" on home page. i came up with something a little different we're going to try. we created a page /home and put the rel canonical there, and we're using a 302 to redirect /home to /. i'm hoping google will index the homepage as  /home while it "temporarily" goes to get the content from /.

Well put, thanks Dan. I'm going to stick with the 302 "temporarily." Wink, wink. After all, everything is temporary right?!