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I put in a custom Free Shipping attribute.  So for the product details page (...\template\catalog\product\view.phtml) I can call $_product->getAttributeText(’free_shipping’) and it returns either ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ (it’s a drop down). 

But on the category page (...\template\catalog\product\view.phtml) making that call in the foreach($_productCollection as $_product) loop doesn’t work.  This http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/how-to/add-attributes-to-product-grid#update_templates page seems to say that calling getAttributeText on a product object should work.

Any ideas?

In catalog.xml under layout/ I had forgot to add <action method="addAttribute"><name>free_shipping</name></action>
to <catalog_category_layered> in <block type="catalog/product_list"