Thanks for the reply. I've considered the removal then reinclusion, but of course I would hate to do that. I'm worried about loss of page rank (It's taken me forever to even get to a 2. I'm also worried about links being dropped.

In my research on this, I've found that it is an amazingly common problem. One that should not happen and one that Google apparently has no interest in correcting.

I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that YAHOO is a superior search engine.