Steven Zahm@ Jody
The issue is still the www. With Connections deactivated your site is auto-redirecting to the URL without the www. Look at the browser address bar after you type in your site address with the www. Notice that is lacks the www.
I can not think of a single reason why Connections would care about a www redirect. This still points to some sort of site config issue. Check the WP General Settings and make sure the WP URL and the Site URL are set correctly. Generally they should match. In your case I would expect them to be http://kcitalians.com
I wonder… do you by chance have the directory home page set to be the same page as your sites static front page? Check the Connections : Settings admin page under the General tab and the WP Reading Settings admin page. I would expect your directory home page to be set the the Directory page.