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Actually kstuart is right, it's almost impossible to detect cheats from game scores alone. You need to take a lot of other factors into account; like how often the pgn file is downloaded during a game, or the time lag between the game page being requested and the move being submitted.
Players with higher ratings will always be under suspicion... the problem is that those (the honest ones, anyway) are the very players you want to encourage on a site like this.
It's much easier to get an idea of the prevalence of cheating first, by studying the ratings distribution (in a completely honest sample you should have a nice clean unskewed bell curve). You can then start to weed out the cheats at the point at which it starts to look endemic.
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"Actually kstuart is right, it's almost impossible to detect cheats from game scores alone"
I belive a good Player can sense the engine with
there intuition. I feel the position I search the
truth on the board and no lies may exist! It's
something that cheats will never overcome no
matter how clever they think there program is.
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Ah yes... but your intuition is based on more than just the moves. Response times, the content of the players chat, the player's contributions to the forum, other games, and many other tell tale signs - all of these factors are significant, some empirically so and some purely intuitively. Your intuition listens to them all whether you are aware of it or not... but is it enough to convict?
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Afraid not... 
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Response times wont work as we get an email telling us what the last move was complete with a picture of the board too i might add.
This means you can decide your moves before logging into the site like i do sometimes as my boards dont always open in my email
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