Thanks, Peter.
When I added a sitemap to webmaster tools a couple of years ago, my crawl rate decreased and I think it actually hurt me. Of course, google is always hard to figure out
I pulled the site map back then but am tempted to resubmit is since I've moved the store to a new platform and it changed all the filenames. (all have been redirected permanently)
Anyone out there had a bad sitemap experience?