lol this whole thread cracks me up.
HINT: PR is updated constantly... just not VISIBLE PR... look guys pagerank is like banking..
if you are spending money or depositing money your account balance changes every day... however your bank only sends you out a statement of where you currently are once per month. That statement is just a snapshot of where you are at the moment they print the statement.
PageRank is much the same way. If you add more links or if the weight of your existing links changes then your PR is changing constantly as well. Once every 3 or 4 months google sends you a "statement" of where you are at the time of the update. A snapshot of where your website is at the precise moment the PR update rolls out.
So is it possible to have a PR5 before you can see it? Absolutely. Would I buy from this guy? probably not.
That being said... getting from PR0 to PR5 is actually REALLY not that hard if you know what you are doing. and it doesnt take 1000s of links and you don't have to pay the above marked monthly prices that seanlopez gave out either. I won't out any of my methods here but Im sure if bofu2u rolls though this thread he can confirm as he has seen some of my sites.
But I digress... PageRank is really not that fucking important. If your site is a PR3+ stop fucking worrying about page rank and focus on the other factors google looks at when valuing your link graph.
IP Diversity/Unique Root Domains linking to you
Trust/Authority (Well trusted popular sites linking to you)
Niche Relevance (other sites/pages in the same niche as you linking in or links from their link sources)
Page Segmentation/Editorial links (links in the content of the page instead of sidebars, footers, comment sections)
and of course... Anchor.
Anyway in closing... Getting to PR5 is easy and you can accomplish it in a day by yourself. No I'm not going to tell you how. Figure it out. Then focus on the other more important shit.