fly out

I have a website that I am re doing and needed a little information. My site is on page one of google and has been for a while however at one point in time many people said I had too much text on my home page most of which was just a brief explanation of what was on different pages of the site.

So when I revised the site last time I got rid of the text and filled it with pictures a little descriptive text. When I did this and updated it I went from page one to like page 8 within a couple weeks.

I left it there for a little while and figured out a way to put all the text back that I took out and the site want back to page one. Since it is obvious that the text was very important to what got me to page one and kept me on page one I now have a question about flyouts.

If I put a pictures on the home page that when you hover over it you are shown a flyout with peaces of the same descriptive text for the page that was on the original article do the search engines read that the same way as if that peace of article was on the page in a text box or does it read as if the article snippet as not being on that page but a separate page. I know that the search engines don't read the articles but I don't know how it reads articles that are clearly on the page as opposed to an article snippets that is there but hidden until you hover over a picture that shows a flyout. Thanks Mark