Chris_D - 1:56 am on Oct 27, 2003 (gmt 0)

I also think outbound anchor text helps ranking. i.e. you link out to another on topic site using as anchor text the same phrase you are targetting, i.e. a text link (not an image with an alt tag).

I believe, that the PR leakage 'loss' is outweighed by the beneficial effect of the on page outbound anchor text - i.e. the page will rank higher - but obviously won't have a 'higher' PR

Is that what you actually did the_nerd?