Hmm, what is the best way of simulating IIS on my home machine? - i have done all testing in the past on apache which acts slightly differently in my experiance anyway :S i am using a meta tag contrib that should in theory pull the first xx number of words from the description, is thi not good enough (i suppose not really). are the 301's the redirects? will this prevent loss of page rank etc? thanks for all the input so far Mike