I am trying to setup my site so that sitename.com is the canonical name vs www.sitename.com. how can i do this in drupal?

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Modify .htaccess to change canonical url

This screencast might be somewhat helpful on the basic process (though backwards to your desire):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EktrYmEeKAs

This seems to be precisely what you want to do (I did not use these instructions myself, but they seem correct and credible):
http://www.scriptalicious.com/blog/2009/04/redirecting-www-to-non-www-us...

Good luck.

I will check these out.

I will check these out. Thanks for the response :)

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Dude...

YOU ROCK!!! Fit the bill perfectly! Maybe Google will stop punishing my site now...

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