pet121,
I can't wait to see your post about this topic. You've been proven right on several occasions, especially regarding the search engines submitting. We don't need to submit to Google. Over-submitting to Google may even kill the site because of the spam issue.
After 3 weeks of launching, one of my sites has been ranked #7 out of 390 on Google search with the same name without submitting to any search engine. I guess the choice of keywords has some definite importance.