Revision - this problem may be resolved :) as of 12/20? according to a blog post I found / and on domains I'm expirmenting with also I've seen improvement.
here is what I knew before:
I put together these few links
essentially if you have a site on google apps and have pages that link to it with its domain name alone ... a search engine following that will run into a robots.txt file that restricts everything.
Problem with google hosting for your domain and robots.txt
http://groups.google.com/group/hosted-misc/browse_thread/thread/993f26e2fc83f112/1f4ae868258e1ef8
robots.txt on google apps for your domain will be set to exclude all - on the domain only way around is to use domainnamehere.com-a.googlepages.com plus everythign that links in seems to require that too
more info on the google hosting robots.txt exclusion issue
same robots.txt problem no search spiders allowed under your domain so what is the point of doing this with google?
which is totally NOT what it says here
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=45686&topic=9204
is it going to work? I'd love to see google apps hosting work.