How does google treat a redirect script?

click tracking

[ankprog]

Hi everybody, long time lurker but first time poster. I have a dilemna with my site, it has grown (in pages) to the point where I need to have some kind of link manager in place, but am wondering how google will treat it. I know it will hurt the pages on my site that I am linking to (not passing pr) but am wondering if google has a problem with the use of a redirect script.

For example, I have a main category say called widgets, will be called:
[widgets.com...] and will take
surfers to:
[widgets.com...]

What I am wondering is, since so many pages will be linking to the first link it is likely that page will be indexed, and could show up in google. Any visitor who hits that page will be redirected, and google frowns upon that. Could I have problems with their TOS even though I have no bad intentions?

I will also use this same script to manage our outbound linking.

Thank you for your time to anybody who responds!