After the ass whoopin that google gave me in the SERPs, they decide to award abnormally high PR to my sites. PR 5 for a site that has only had a social bookmarking blast? I'll take it.
Interestingly enough new pages that were thrown up in the middle of Jan on my money site were given PR, while sites that were thrown up towards the end (even though they were actually hit with many links) were not.
my site that is barely a month old and all of 3 pages is now a PR 2. It can't be found in the SERPS as of two days ago, but it's nice to know it's got some authority now...fuckers.