okay, here's an update for me... I was wondering why my site disappeared from google 2 days ago. Then I read these forums and did more searches to see what could be the problem. I logged into the webmaster tools (dashboard) and there was a message from google, dated 3 weeks ago, saying that my site contains "hidden text". So they removed me from their index LOL I quickly removed the hidden text from the thousands of pages on my site and then sent google a polite email explaining the situation was fixed. I thought it was going to take "up to three weeks" as they indicated in their reply, but apparently they responded back in only one day for me, so Im happy . During the one day of no google traffic, I noticed traffic went down about 30% for me without google. I was hedged due to the fact that I had many inbound links and many rss feeds pointing back to my site. Now things are back to normal and so Im happy once again