I understand that the back links showing in Yahoo may be in order of importance. what does it mean, if anything if the first ten pages of "backlinks" are those of the domain itself, pages within the domain, with no backlinks showing from outside sites/blogs...............?
It probably means that you don't have many strong links....these are links from authority sites with lots of backlinks of their own. Or it could mean that your own pages are just stronger than your external link pages.
What you can do is use the Yahoo Site Explorer tool to check your backlinks and choose "in links" and from the dropdown select "except from this domain" and you should then not see your own backlinks listed. Hope that helps.