arubicus - 7:01 am on May 17, 2006 (gmt 0)

We don't purchase links and do all the recip link crap. But there are plenty of junk links to our site. That just occurs naturally when you get ranked and then scraped.

"If not then the quality sites that do link to you lost some of there PR power becasue they lost backlinks and therefore you lost reputation points from them."

I think this may sum it all up right here. Could be the big answer.