Ray,
One way to check your page rank would be to download the Google toolbar, at http://toolbar.google.com. Once downloaded, the toolbar becomes part of your internet browser. When you type a web address into the small Google address bar, the page rank will be displayed after the page loads. You’ll be able to see a graphical representation of the page rank. Hold your mouse over the “PageRank” area and a popup comment will show you the numeric page rank of the site (e.g. 4/10, 7/10, etc).
If you don’t want to download the Google toolbar, you could use this handy site: http://www.phplivesupport.com/google_pagerank.php. Type the web address (or multiple web addresses) into the box, and then click “Get Page Rank.” It shows you the graph and the number value at the same time, for all of the sites you’ve typed into the box.