flyerguy - 10:17 am on Mar 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

so that's why my site disapeared from the search engines!

Don't rely on this theory alone.

My site using a one-of-a-kind unique name doesn't show up in the first 100 G entries. References from a myriad of quality sources, blog indexes, reviews of the site, etc. but Google will not let someone find my site by typing in the name directly.

I checked, and I have nothing fishy in the allinurl: command, only a few blog indexes pointing to my site.

In addition, 2 year rock steady number one keyword phrase for the site dropped out of the continuum, right out of the ballpark. Doesn't matter that the site is an authority in the sector with the 17 of the first 20 listings being ABOUT my site, for some reason Googles algo has punished us.

SO. There are many ways Google could have screwed you recently, not just this one redirect problem.