Hi eb5100,
Welcome to 5 Star. You have sites on free hosts that are on all those front pages?
Wow I haven't seen a free host get ranked high for years.
The other concern about free hosts, in addition to the fact you don't own the site and they can pull it - is that the ads on the free hosts are leaks. Affiliates get REALLY upset with merchants that have other ads or adsense on their site because the affiliate looses potential sales. So I would think having ads right on your own site that you you don't profit from and could take people away from your site is even more of a leak. You're making money for the hosting company that could have been yours.
