jimbeetle - 4:53 pm on Nov 15, 2007 (gmt 0)

I have a certain amount of money and resources to spend on link building...

While it is somewhat of a consensus that .edu links are more trusted, since you mentioned "money" keep in mind that not all .edu links are treated the same. Most purchased links on college newspaper sites have not been passing any juice or been trusted for quite some time.