Okay here is the thing. Say www.domain.com is PR4. But when someone types in www.domain.com they are auto forwareded to www.domain.com/home (and its always been like this, siknce www.domain.com got PR4) If my link is in www.domain.com/home will get the PR4 credit? or nothing? tool bar shows 0 for the redirected page.
yes it will not get the pr. For example my site www.splaytech.com is a different page according to google then splaytech.com even tho both urls will take you to the same page. so you would have to optimize for the redirected page as well