Just a quick question for readers - how long did it take you from when you first learned about SEO to install the Google toolbar and check out PR on every site? And, conversely, how many weeks/months/years until you uninstalled it?

For me, it was about 10 days into first learning about SEO back in 2002 that I installed the toolbar. It wasn't until July-August of 2004 that I finally got rid of the thing entirely. Now the only time I use PR is for the tools, and even then, it's just one piece of a rough calculation.