Ditto everything Mike said, but i'm also curious what Similarity changes you made ... without knowing what that code looks like, all bets are off in terms of anyone being able to help you understand the scores you are seeing.
: I am not quite sure how the score changed from 1.33 to 1.25. I am not quite : sure how this might have happened - I have modified the custom similarity : but I don't quite have an explanation of how the score changed. -Hoss