mack - 9:09 pm on Apr 4, 2003 (gmt 0)

I think you have made a pretty good point. In this situation what I would concider doing is to use JS links to point to your non importaint pages amd use standard links for all home links from within these pages. That was little or no pagerank will be passed across and you will be able to send some extra to places where it is required. In geneal I am not so sure it will make a lot of difference because pagerank will be passed to your pages and back to your homepage so long as you dont have any externl links within these pages. One god reason to use robots.txt to prevent these pages being indexed is due to the fact that pages such as your tos and privacy police may change. It would not be good to have a user read your out of date privacy policy from the google cache.