Sure are a lot of edited posts here 
Janet – There are smaller sites that get bumped down the SERPS quite a bit by fairly useless scrapers. It is quite obvious that many of the scrapers are using linkspam to rank higher as well – guestbooks, blogspam, and many, many others. As a younger WH site, it is not possible to compete. By competing, you must spam links in order to rank quickly. Doing this means spaming places that are NOT related to the industry. AND – if you do this, eventually, when the SE’s finally get it fixed – your little ole WH site will also get the shaft.
So – how can it be fixed? How does one re-gain SERPS when the sites beating them have tens of thousands of links?
I guess I just want to re-gain what I have had in the past on many of my sites, but it can be difficult when this is what you are up against.