Thanks Dave, thats good to know. Im using 1and1 mostly for my projects and they dont seem to do the autodirect with their hostings. I put up a short tutorial a few days ago on the webassist beta site demonstrating the .htaccess for 301 redirects :) And Ray kindly responded with another tip using the same concept but using PHP (in case some users dont have access to adjusting the .htaccess.
Chris