thank you for your response - let me just clarify - from what  I understand I was trying to set up a "preffered domain" - since previously one could enter with the www or without - and this is all the same address - and I only want people to get to the www - and so I looked for some code that would allow me to forward non www to www - in the htaccess file I entered  -

Options -Indexes

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\.oshmanbarteck\.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.oshmanbarteck.com/$1 [R=301,L]

is my code wrong  - I do not think the code  is telling them to put a 301 on the www.address  aka "bing serp death" - because bing has it that on the www.oshmanbarteck.com has moved permanently to the same address  - they also have http://oshmanbarteck.com moved permanently to the 3 w address - which is what I was trying to attain. I set this up about 2 weeks ago and all went smoth with google.

thank you kindly for this  information - except firstly how come other search engines are forwarding the http://o.... to the http://www.o... without the bing  issue - what  I am not sure  of is why on the cached page  of bing http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%22http+oshmanbarteck+com%22&d=4543521387249742&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=6502a13c,b1891b0c

it shows the www address to the www address - do you think this is due to that minor error  in the search engine instruction? - and if so once I change the code do you suggest I just resubmit  sitemap via the webmaster tools -

also I only have the accouint  on bing webmaster a the non www - as all are fowarded to the www - is this correct  - so I only set up the account  on bing as http://www.  - could there be an issue here should i set up both

Im not convinced that other search engines are following your 301 correctly.

For Google, they haven't yet re-cached your site (last cached weeks ago).  
If you look at the link I posted above, Google still has nearly all of your site without the www in its index.  

Bing crawled and re-cached on 20th, your  htaccess instruction could be looping - redirecting www to www. I dont know where you found that code - but askapache is a very reliable resource.  If you correct this code, you should be fine on the next crawl.

I cant help you about WBT but I would personally only have www.... one if thats the one that you are using.

Yep - just checked Yahoo.  Its struggling with your site as well - CLICK HERE

You can check your 301 behaviour HERE - type in your URL.  Its in a constant loop.

super - thank you once again  - I have made the htaccess file changes and will wait for the next round  of crawls  - till then

ah but wait - I just checked it after the change and I see  - well  I am not sure does  - this  look correct at the 301 search tool - still looks a bit  like a  loop?

I wouldnt normally do this, but email me your .htaccess file - I'll take a look

We should not have any problems with 301 redirects. We did have some trouble in the past, but  I've personally checked redirect chains up to 4 deep and we still did not have problems.

Here is the redirect .htaccess code I use to redirect non-www to www:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Looking at his pages, none are caching (I dont think anyway) other than the homepage.....

I initially had the wrong script for the 301 redirect  - this has now been resolved with the correct script so that there is no loop - but what  might you recommend to get the site  listed and visited again -  as I have now  vanished from search engines - thank you

You'll just need to resubmit your sitemap (suggest you run it again, perhaps using this http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/)

Do you have cpanel access?  If so, you can check how often your site is being crawled for an estimation on how long it will take.  

Also, you have a bit of SEOing to do

http://www.reactionengine.com/analyse?uri=www.oshmanbarteck.com%2F&keyphrase=physical+Therapy