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I think I'm becoming anal retentive. Just today, I took the time to contact two "seo" companies with linked articles from the Learn Seo page to let them know that they might want to redirect their broken links! I can't imagine having a link like that and letting it just crumble in to little 1s and 0s, not to mention I didn't get the info I was wanting. I'm sure they'll think I'm nuts. I then start thinking to myself, "self, you might know a thing or two" and then another robot and his tag issue come whack me back in my place... thanks for the confirmation Cyrus. I just found out there's a support forum for this kind of thing..probably a better place for these  issues.

Thanks Ben. I hadn't heard the idea of using Amazon turk before. I'll give it shot.

Thank you Cyrus for that great article link. And like that article states near the end, it touches on a common problem for those of us that assume all the info at SeoMoz is accurate even though it may not be current. (not only seomoz to be fair) I've found several instances where even authorities change their mind or google changes is for them? But anyways, it appears using canonical or meta tags would be the better solution. Unfortunately,neither is possible in Squarespace. I had just about decided to change the robots.txt , get rid of the disallow: /category/ , and call it a day. But then I found an example where the noindex was used in the robots.txt file of a squarespace website (specializing in SEM among other things). Probably the "longest" robots list I've ever seen! http://www.hunchfree.com/robots.txt Would it be a good idea to use noindex, FOLLOW in the robots.txt  for /category/ (if that's even possible) or just keep with my "call it a day" solution...at least where robots.txt is concerned. BTW- I posted a similar question on the reasoning behind the robots.txt for ss websites at the developers forum- nothing but crickets. Unless it's about design, things pretty much drop like a rock. Oh well.