A. No one (outside of Google/Yahoo/MSN/etc...) really knows.
Themes may work some day.
Themes may even play a part in the Google(Yahoo, MSN, etc...) algorithm today.
But... I wouldn't turn down a link from anyone. ;-)
Personally, I don't believe in themes today and I'm not very optimistic about themes in the future. Proof? None. That's a completely unsupported supposition. In my mental model of search engine behavior, the answer is 95, because I'll discount 5 for visitors who come to your site by actually clicking the link.
You are sure to get some conflicting opinions here, but that's all they really are -- opinions. We're all very short on facts on this particular topic.
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