CainIV - 9:29 pm on Jan 5, 2010 (gmt 0)

Unless he is penalized, I don't see a reason to wait on building quality links. In fact, often quality links re-align websites that currently have issues (if there are in fact ranking issues)

Using the Yahoo tool will return total results including multiple results for links on the same server. It is my opinion that Google entirely discounts all but one of those links on those websites.

There are more accurate tools to use (free) in the marketplace that are well known that will show unique linking domains. That's a much better number / reference to work with in link assessment.