How often is that we see site with PR 10. Just came across www.statcounter.com and its PR 10, even yahoo is at PR 9
(I have nothing against statcounter, they provide great service) Why can't google differentiate between just links and meaningfull links. Given their expertise it shouldn't be difficult for them.
I see Yahoo counting over 18,000,000 backlinks. But you're right a huge percentage are <noscript> links I'm guessing