I agree. From what I’ve learned here at CAP, it’s best to keep it under 100. You especially don’t want the main page to be a link farm. It wouldn’t be too hard to divide your links into three or four separate groups. You could put each group on its own page within the site.
DMOZ seems to do fine in the rankings and has over 21,000 pages of links. Has more to do with the quality of the links and the link pages than it does how many link pages you have.