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deadsea - 9:31 am on May 17, 2011 (gmt 0)
Matt Cutts just weighed in on this:
[mattcutts.com...]
He says a bunch of specifics about when rel canonical will not be honored:
1) In the <body>, only honored in the <head> (answers my question from my earlier response, YAY!)
2) If Google suspects the site is hacked
3) If the <head> section is not closed
4) If it points to a 404 page.
And he gives advice to put the rel canonical early in <head> section. That probably means before any 200 line block of javascript.