tedster - 2:14 am on Dec 27, 2011 (gmt 0)

but you are sending a LOT of link PR

That's not the way I see Google actually working these days. If that link isn't in a content area of the template, then there's not the same big batch of PR being sent that you might assume, based on the original PR patent. And yes, whatever is sent does circulate back through the main pages. Really not a problem, from what I've seen.