where is the "base home page"?

I know that my site is all generated by php.. But I'm trying to add a small counter script to what an html site would be index.html... Is there a file that contains the main page information? (where the meta descriptions, meta tags stuff like that would go?? ) for the life of me I can't find it.

does anyone know the answer to this?

Look in catalog/view/theme/default/template/common

Try header.tpl or footer.tpl

I think I found the right one. Layout.tpl in my current theme under common is what I was looking for. There is a cool site called www.statcounter.com that wants to throw in a java script. This site gives you a lot of good data about who is going to your site and where they found you at.

layout.tpl was removed in 1.3.4 and later.. So header will eventually be the best place as that takes all the new layout stuff