texasville - 9:15 pm on Dec 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

I don't know...did I miss something or did this just get passed by-

>>>>I've managed to get around 25 one way inbound links from sites on topic<<<

25 links is only going to do you well in searches that produce no more than 2000 results. I see travel sites with 500-3000 inbound links. Even obscure sites need many, many more to rank in the serps.

Don't worry about pages validating- that has proven to be minor-
work on inbound links. From the higher pr pages the better.