Backlinks not showing up

I have done thousands of post. Including Angela's backlinks report, made many web 2.0 sites with senuke leaving 2 sometimes 3 links on pages ran this 2 or 3 times, and manually post links in comments, make new sites and post and add link to my profile. I check all sites to make sure they do follow. I put out a few articles, booked marked everything a few times, yet i do not show 1 not 1 back link

I look in market samurai and it shows 0, I went to check-backlink.com, and about 8 other back link checking pages all show 0 back links.

I am #1 in google phrase search and 3 pages are in the #50's area in broad search. I need to move up and get out of the 50's super fast. Internet bussiness promoter and a few other sites and programs say i have over 10 pages indexed on google but i do not show any back links at all.

I did not make a link wheel but i do have a few of them linking together. But most are linking directly to my money page and deep linked to other pages on main site. I have submitted the rss feeds to many services and pinged all book marks and sites right after i did them all. I also have 2 to 3 post on every page book marking after every post and pinging them also. I am using sites like digg,wiki,blogspot, all the major sites that senuke has plus many others on my own that i found. The site and many pages are indexed on google but no backlinks and i figure without backlinks it will never move up.
It has been about a week, this is my first product launch.
Is this normal and is this the only way to move up my ranking and get out of the 50's area?