Yes, I was just investigating it myself. Definitely fake PR. If you check out the DT History thumbnails, you'll see that macmasterskully.com was set up as a redirect to tuaw.com (an operational PR8 site) shortly before it expired.
And regarding the 16K dofollow links: if you perform a link:macmasterskully.com query on Google, you'll see that all sites that come up link to tuaw.com, but none point to macmasterskully.com. Bingo
Guys, exercise some common sense here: archive.org clearly shows that macmasterskully.com was just a simple tech support site set up by a random Apple fanatic and GoDaddy indicates the site receives about 35 visitors per month. Do these criteria scream "PR8" to you??
On top of that, I've managed to get in touch with the prior owner of macmasterskully.com and he said he'd be willing to give up the name for low $xxx. I'm wondering whether to finish hijacking this one for altruism's sake or to back off and allow the poor winner pays $xx,xxx for his mistake, courtesy of a bug in the dropsdomains.com software.
Edit: Decided to break off the discussion with the prior owner. While I do ascribe to the philosophy of "I am my brother's keeper", I don't believe it my responsibility to pay for another domainer's foolishness.
