[mauiman]

I'd be remiss if I didn't plug my BigGuide.net directory here.

I agree with your selection of some of the best directories. They're definitely the "A" list and there are few others as well.

Mine is a PR5, SEO-friendly, DMOZ listed (recently) general directory. It has over 8500 links currently in about 1000 categories. I recently added articles, but it'll be some time before they add a lot of SEO value.

BigGuide.net was free up until recently. I couldn't keep up with the 200 submissions a day!!! So I switched to free listing with recip link from decent page on a quality site or you can splurge and get an annual listing for $3 or $5 for regular or featured listings. Regular listings include 3 deeplinks. Featured listings inlclude 5 deep links AND up to 3 additional categories. Both will be increasing after the next google PR update.

All new listings show up in front of the free listings with featured in front of paid reg listings of course.

With the money I've been investing I expect the pagerank of my inner pages will be rising steadily in the near future.

Please consider adding my BigGuide.net to your "B" list while I work on getting it into the "A" list.

Cheers