Meta tags and no follow issues

I am attempting to improve my blogs rank on google. I have two problems google tools keeps saying are wrogn with my blogs and I have been over and over the HTML and cannot find a fix.

1. it says i have it set to "no follow" I have checked for every possible form of no follow in the html and even with it set to expand widgets, have checked through all the widgets... and checked my settings over and over and it still says my blog is set to no follow.

2. I followed the instructions for setting up meta tags, filled them out, and pasted them before the header tag. then went and followed the set up guide for google optimizer from google tools and put that code at the end of my blog like the directions said to. but now both google tools and other search engine rank checkers says that I do not have any meta tags. I can clearly see them in my coding. How do I fix this?

I have been working with blogger coding since around 2006 or so and have a fairly goo grasp of how to use it. After 4 weeks of trying to fix this issue on to blogs, and knowing its probably going to be something I am going to tackle with a third blog I have let go fallow, I'd really like to find an easy solution to the problem.

Anybody else figure out how to fix these issues?

I know that google doesnt give a sh*t about the meta tags, I'm trying to get picked up by other search engines. On my other blog I used the same code sequence and placed it in the same section and it worked just fine. for some reason this blog, with a different skin, is marked as do not follow. or so google analytics says. has anyone else come up with this problem?