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timster - 9:08 pm on Jan 7, 2005 (gmt 0)
All your hunches sound right to me besides this one. I have a little hobby site that is completely ignored by Google (PR1), Yahoo gives it a little attention, but MSN Beta loves it to death. (Out of nowhere, I'm the #1 result on some reasonable key phrases. I guess I'm doing something right.) My site has clean XHTML, CSS, is new, and has few inbound links. But I don't use meta. The pages in question are dynamically generated, very clean, lightweight, and get straight to the point.
MSN likes Meta, and puts a lot of weight on it.