Tracker says I rank high for certain key combos, I go to varify by going to the sites and looking ei, google, and Im not there. Why is this?
I believe the tracker relies on the Google API. When comparing results between the search engine, the API and the toolbar (for PageRank) you'll find they differ enormously. If I remember correctly, the search engine gets the freshest data from the hive mind. Then the API gets updated every so often. And finally the toolbar receives updated PageRanks.
Google uses many data centers, with thousands of "servers" - You can see the data centers here in my google dance system: http://www.optimization-services.com/google-dance-system.asp?ID=4 - when google is compiling, results from those servers being used will not be available. If you use my google dance system and the results are different they are working, if the results are the same they are finished compiling.