I know "is this weight right?!" threads are annoying, but I'm just curious... I set up two accounts 1) base url http://forums.ffshrine.org/archive/, PR4 base, 5,010 internal pages in google 2) base url http://forums.techguy.org, PR5 base, 157,000 internal pages first one has 54,000 weight, the second has 13,500. is there something I'm missing?
You have the base URL set to http://forums.techguy.org/archive/ instead of http://forums.techguy.org/archive/index.php/ If you change it to the 2nd one, (which is where the PR5 is) you should be good.
Along these same lines, for some unknown reason to me my home page has a PR2 but many of my internal pages have a PR4. Would it help if I too changed the base URL to one of these internal pages?
No, because then you would only get credit for that one page. If it's a directory you would only get credit for what's in the directory.