Hi Alvin
It looks like we both had a revelation moment last night on the other forum! I'm glad you also feel strongly about this to make other people aware of this issue, an issue that before last night I had a very different and very wrong opinion about.
I think this issue is very important. So much so, that it has given me the push I needed to set up, albeit in a rush, a separate website on SEO and write about this as the site's first
SEO article.
One of the reasons for needing a separate site and article to explain this fully, is rather than just talk about the code, I have also set up a dummy google results page which demonstrates what logging information is sent back to google and when. The dummy page's code, when you view source, has also been beautified to make it easier to understand what is going on.
Now I'm off to the other
thread on this forum, to correct what I wrongly said earlier about google not monitoring clicks!