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OH BOY!  You're going to have to let me read through this a time or two and get back to you!    I think I get it but I need to digest a bit of this canonical stuff that I keep avoiding.

Thank you so much.  I'll get back.

I do not need to necessarily rank for every fabric.  There are a few such as Disney characters or sports teams that I do need to rank for.  My previous site had all the chairs on one page with a drop down and it just was not as "simple" to shop the item and it made specific tracking and "book keeping" a little more difficult.  I like to have zoomed and multiple views for each chair when possible.  I find this reduces the number of returns and customer inquiries when the customer can really see each product.

So, giving each product it's own page is for two reasons - the customer's shopping experience and for my tracking purposes.

As for the meta tags- I think your quote above is possibly one issue.  The programming on my site automatically generates the meta tag based upon my product description.

By the way, Thank you for your time and expertise.

Thank you Aeronet.  I think most of my issues are within the description.  Example: I may have a kids recliner in 50 different fabric choices.  So the url, title, meta tag, and product name are all unique.  However, the description is practically the same for each chair.  You have given me a couple things to look into though such as the written/unwritten url.  New to me but I will look into it as well as double check some other things.

When my newly designed site was released, I was unaware that the new program would generate a URL for each page based upon my product ID and not the established URL that I assigned it.  Therefore all of my previous, 5 yr old and hard worked, URL's vanished.  I did not discover this for 25 days and had to do a 301 redirect on a large chunk of my site.  It's been quite a mess.

The number of duplicate content pages have been overwhelming, but I was just shocked to see the number suddenly drop to a 3rd of what it was yesterday.  Still not sure what has happened to cause this.

Yes, you can click on the error/duplicate content link and the pages will list.  It will list the other pages below the bolded listing.  Hope that  helps.

So I am pretty new to SEO Moz.  I have an e-commerce site and recently did a website redesign.  However, not without several mistakes and issues.  That said, when SEO Moz did a crawl of my site, the results showed A LOT of Duplicate Content Pages on my site due to my having one item in many variations.  It was almost over whelming and because the number of pages was so high, I have been trying to research ways to correct it quickly.  The latest crawl from yesterday shows a drastic drop in the number of duplicate content pages and a slight increase in pages with too long page titles (which is fixable).  I am embarrassed to give the number of duplicate pages that were showing but, just know, it's been reduced to a third of the amount.

I am just wondering if I missed something and should I be happy or concerned?  Has there been a change that could have caused this?  Thanks for helping this rookie out!