arubicus - 6:51 am on May 17, 2006 (gmt 0)

vanillaice - Would that help, or am I just grasping here?"

I think you are grasping. It makes sense to have a navigational menu on each page. Smaller sites the navigational menu probably won't change but on larger sites it more than likely will change through the drill down process. (Not talking about breadcrumb navigation).

Just make sure there is enough "actual" content in the main portion of your site to decrease similarity - That goes for meta titles, descriptions, and keywords.