Robert_Charlton - 11:02 pm on Dec 17, 2012 (gmt 0)

PPS: I should add to my post above that it's in fact to be expected that, on a short general phrase, if both the home page and the deeper page include the core phrase, and the home page has inbound links favoring the phrase, then it's to be expected that the home page will outrank the deeper page... particularly in the situations I described.