hightechdad Glad that worked for you! Sometimes it doesn't always do it. I recently had to change themes for my wife's machine because her theme wasn't quite compatible with the version of Firefox she had.
You never know what it is until you try some things.
I sure hope we turn this around soon. I told my wife last night that Obama had to be appealing -- no matter how conservative you were -- simply because you wanted to believe that he was different, that he would bring change. Now we've seen, though, that while these two candidates may be somewhat outside the establishment, they're still playing the establishment's games as always. It will take a significant number of us genuinely getting fed up with it and doing something about it for things to ever change.
This recent penalty isn't for selling links, nor is it for linking to bad neighborhoods. Google is penalizing sites for selling links and not marking them as paid links. They've been very clear that paid links should be marked with "nofollow."
As Tom writes below, this is an attempt to stop this particular type of search engine manipulation.
You never know what it is until you try some things.
-HTD