I agree. I tried about webceo's submission tool, but didn't have much luck. Building links manually sucks, but you will have a much higher approval rate. There are people in the services forum that do this for pretty cheap. I'm not convinced that directory submissions work, but for 5 or 10 bucks here or there it doesn't hurt.
I don't think that automated directory submission will be helping you. You can choose some manual ways or at least semi auto tools. These kind of tools will be helping you to submit in a manual way but it will make your job easy. Try social submitter for this job.
directory can be submitted through inform enter or roboform (pro version). but i sugest you not use these tools these are like poison, slow is better than penalize