Hello cat!
Please, don’t give up, we have to be patient. :highflyer
I have almost the same number of LE partners as you (I started my site at 28 of June), and as Google states today I have 0, zero, nada link point to me (and a lot of my LE partners has PR 4-5 on their links page on which my link is on). I write almost every week an article and submit to 5 or 6 article directory, so they are one-way links (they are far more better than reciprocal links, so nowadays I only exchange links with trusted partners).
And the result so far? 0 links says the Big G. (MSN says 20-22 I don’t know exactly, Yahoo… well, I don’t like Yahoo, it is the scrapers heaven…so I don’t take its result seriously.)
I am participating some poker forum (Poker.com, Cardplayer.com, etc..) and try to give valuable advice to the ppl there, and my signature contains my site. My visitors mostly came from these sources.
As my site logs say every visitor visits at least 7-8 pages of my site. I know it is good (My real profession is in connection with online marketing so I exactly know how hard it is to make the visitor stay on the site and don’t go away after the home page). In this phase I measure the success in this way. If I have made some horrible site, the ppl wouldn’t stay so long on the site browsing through the pages and read it. They would click away at once.
I know we are very depend on the search engines, but at the beginning (and the beginning could last half a year too!) you have to believe that what you do is good.
When I started my site I told myself that I give the site 6-8 months to show me that it is worth to be in this industry(My first goal is to make $500 in 6-8 months – I mean in one month but I have 6-8 months to do it 
. Always make your goals doable, and start with little.
So heads up cat, our time will come I feel!
And then we will talking to each other on the beach drinking chilled Pina Colada and laugh on these thoughts. :rasta:
Sorry if my post is too long, but I hope I will give you a little light and you can see that others are in the same situation as you.