WMT shows dupe meta descriptions after I've made URLs friendly with 301s

[wheelie34]

Last Friday I changed my db pages to remove the ?=$var and use the $var as the end result of the URL, 301's are in place (thanks JDMorgan), I rebuilt my sitemap for WMT went through it to make sure everything was correct, tested the 301's all works perfect, yesterday in WMT I have hundreds of duplicate meta descriptions according to Google.

So I checked the whole site structure, find & replace, locally just incase I missed changing a link to the new format but found none, ran xenu to double check the old style wasn't being called anywhere, it isn't, checked headers in FF they return a 301.

Is this normal for WMT? is it a case of just wait?

Thanks

[g1smd]

Once Google has spotted the 301 redirects, the error will clear.

It might take several months.

The redirect should be preserving your traffic, so keep an eye on that.

[wheelie34]

Thanks, traffic seems stable so far, site command shows about 10% new url's already.