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subdomains on free webspace usually are mistaken for having high PR when its only an estimation from the toolbar.
Yes, that should be possible if you have several hundreds or thousands of pages in the same site and each page contained several dozens or hundreds of interlink!
A competitor of mine uses this tactic - their website contains more than 5,000 pages and each page contains hundreds of internal links. The result as far as I can is that their index page get PR8, but their internal pages only attain PR4.
To confirm, you should also check how many pages of that website are indexed in Google and how they link internally.
I could create a site with 500,000 pages with heavy internal linkage and it would get nowhere without some external inbound to feed it PR.
You cannot "create" PR from nothing.
Keep in mind that there are a number of reasons that sites can "mysteriously" have PR.
1) A high PR page is linking to them which is not displayed in the Google backlink check. (GoogleGuy has stated multiple times that not all links which count towards PR will show up in a link: search)
2) As b_o_LAN mentioned above... it could be a "toolbar guess" rather than actual PR. (check the Google directory for the site in question to see if they have actual rather than guessed PageRank)
3) The majority of inbound links are PR1-4 which are not displayed using the link: command. (though there are very rare exceptions to this rule)
Do a search for "www.domain.com" at Google or try the link: command at FAST to see if there are other inbounds which are not being displayed in the Google link check.
