How to get certain pages to not be indexed by search engines?

I did:

<meta name="robots" content="none"/>

Is that the best way to go about it, or is there a better way?

You could use a robots.txt file to direct search engines which pages not to index.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449

Or use the meta noindex tag in each page.