That's the word on the street, it's been said many times on many forums and blogs. No wonder.... Directories are known link grabbers and link to anything including untargeted links. Reason - the links used to boost serp position, but is artificial, and Google likes on-target stuff instead. yep, playing with the toolbar is possible, I wouldn't put it past them. But I don't believe Google is totally evil.
Internal pr means nothing.. give me one reason it matters... because they know what to update the display too?