daroz - 12:20 am on Mar 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

OneTooMany: If someone has better evidence of what the GoogleBot does with the tags I'll gladly defer..

I say it is doing something with them because I do use them (legitmately) on 2-3 places on my site for at least internal links and text display. GoogleBot follows those links - at least for me. (I would check the text but finding it is hopeless - there are no keywords in there.)

Oliver, if I were in your shoes I might just wait to see what happens to his ranking after the next update. If it seems as through the text inside those scripts is being used to illegimately enhance his SERPs then I would fill out a report to Google about it.