I was looking at my "inlinks" results page from yahoo and it appears i have got a decent amount. http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=http://u3.desiblogs.co.uk&bwm=i&bwmf=s So looking at these do they count as backlinks for Google pageranks or not?
I'm not sure google goes by that much, unless they're relevent backlinks. When I use to see a site with high page rank I would check the backlinks and some would only have a few backlinks.
You will get a page rank sooner or later. But list your blog here in the forums and blog area and you will get your blog crawled often.