Imagine if you will; that you create half a dozen sites none of which feature affiliate banners, but instead feature targeted content with optimized terms and anchor text linking to one another; in addition to other sites which do contain affiliate links.
The junk “work” sites will get listed, they will optimize the non listed affiliate sites by linking as a neighborhood. Those junk sites are also listable in dmoz too so the seo value to the linked affiliate site is multiplied!
Just think outside the box for a moment and you will see the light.