Stockhound-you really don't seem to have a good grasp of how shorting works, or what its function is. Perhaps you should read some of the academic literature. Lamont is a good place to start. Also the PALM case study, a classical example of how contraints on shorting allow gross mispricing of stocks.
Leave the cat alone, for what has the cat done, that you should so afflict it with tape? - Ian Frazier, Lamentations of the Father