If possible try and use the meta refresh only as a last resort. If you have PHP support, you can use:
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<?php
header("Location: http://www.somewhere.com/");
?>
to redirect.
If you have Apache, you can put this into your .htaccess to redirect users:
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Redirect /somewhere.html http://www.example.com/newpage.html
Both these methods help ensure that spiders are properly redirected and also made sure that the "Back" button works properly. Here's a
good article on it