Text block as image -- should I care?

It was pointed out to me that most of the text on my site is an image, rather than lines of text. All of the text on my site was typed onto the site into text blocks, and none of it was cut and pasted. I did use Garamond for the font.
A few threads have covered this topic, which I have read.
Two of those blocks of text-as-image are on my home page and the text in those blocks appears in Google (on the listing of the site on the first "search result" -- or whatever it is called -- page).
Doesn't this mean that the text in those "text-as-image blocks" (sorry for all the quote marks, but I don't know the real names of these things) are indeed searchable by google, even if they are images rather than lines of text?
I have tried cutting and pasting the text into TextEdit and then repasting the text back but that didn't solve the problem.
So:
1. Does any of this really matter to the search engines and the ability of people to find text on my pages? Or for some weird reason does the home page act differently than the other pages?
2. Does anyone have a consistent solution to this problem?
3. Is this something that Apple may think significant enough to have already fixed for the next version -- which I hope is out in a couple of months?
But mainly, should I even care?
Thanks!
Mark

1. Does any of this really matter to the search
engines and the ability of people to find text on my
pages? Or for some weird reason does the home page
act differently than the other pages?
No and no. It sounds like your page is already coming up in the search results...graphic or text? It doesn't matter.
2. Does anyone have a consistent solution to this
problem?
Not sure that it is a problem that needs fixing.
3. Is this something that Apple may think
significant enough to have already fixed for the next
version -- which I hope is out in a couple of
months?
Again, I doubt that Apple sees it as a problem. iWeb converts text into an image for a reason.... your happiness. Most people would probably want to have a webpage that looks the way it is supposed to look (the way they want it to look). Most people probably don't care about text converted to image as long as it looks the way they expect it to look. This is why iWeb does the text to graphic conversion....to ensure uniform and consistent rendering of the text on the page. I think many, many more people would be upset if iWeb allowed them to put different fonts and text effects on a page and then left it up to a browser to determine how those fonts and effects were to be rendered.
But mainly, should I even care?
I think in the grand scheme of things, you shouldn't care. But that's just my humble opinion.

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