If you want a PR 7 Link, you can get it directly from Google. All u gotta do is sign up for a Google Search Appliance or Google Mini partner. Pay Google the big bucks And they will list your site here http://www.google.com/enterprise/gep/directory_apps.html (used to be pr7, but they just changed it) More about this at: http://www.conversionrater.com/index.php/2007/02/23/google-selling-pr7-links-for-10000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/misc-bits/
Well, its got 31 diggs so far. Apparantly alot of people don't think its pointless and misleading. Also, Matt Cutts which works at Google blogged about it.
someone already made a similar post about it today. plus matt cutts said on his blog that he spoke to those in charge of the page and it is not going to pass any PR. But you already new that because the thread you scraped it from already addressed all these issues. negative rep.
I would be pretty p/o'd if I lost a sweet one way pr 7 link from google thanks to the viral powers of the interwebs. Not to say it's not worth anything it's still a huge link, just no pr payoff.