When did traffic from a home page become "dishonest" numbers?
Seeing as how I'm not in your league, must I spell out everything to you?
They're fudged, rigged, whatever words you wanna use. The fact remains that a lot of those hits aren't from conscious decisions to make MSN a home page. Some people are just too lazy to change the setting, or don't know how, or don't care, whatever. There's no way you can logically compare MSN to Google's hits, since Google doesn't have the home field advantage of OS's and/or browsers shipping with them as a default.