"Demoted" For Error?

I've used a link popularity site (Submit Express) for the past 4-5 wks to see how many links I have in Google, Alta Vista, All The Web and Yahoo. My total was about 87,000 since I began checking. Yesterday morning, I submitted two new Squidoo URLs to DMOZ.
But I mistakenly entered the wrong description for the first URL.
I noticed the mistake as soon as I'd submitted it. Within minutes, I resubmitted the URL with the corrected description and then send a second site's URL with
it's correct description...which has already been submitted incorrectly with the first URL.As soon as I had submitted this hodgepodge of errors, I wondered if I would be penalized for "spamming." Have I been?? Is that why my Alta Vista, Yahoo and All The Web links are each one third the number they were yesterday? How can this error be corrected? I worked for a years to build my links up to 87,000. And now it all seem for naught.

> I submitted two new Squidoo URLs to DMOZ.
Which you should not have done.
1) we ask people to not suggest related websites
2) we ask people not to suggest deeplinks

> I wondered if I would be penalized for "spamming." Have I been??
To be marked as spammer you will have to do much worse.

> Is that why my Alta Vista, Yahoo and All The Web links are each one third the number they were yesterday? How can this error be corrected? I worked for a years to build my links up to 87,000. And now it all seem for naught.

DMOZ has no influence on the number of links shown on other sites (it only can increase that number with 1)
Those other sites do not have access to information about websites suggested to DMOZ.
Such a relation (and outcome) is totaly non existing.

I worked for a years to build my links up to 87,000.

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I expect that work has been noticed. (Notice of such things is NEVER favorable.)

But the short answer is: your suggestion to the ODP could not possibly have caused the problem you see.

And the short recommendation is: find competent search engine optimizer advice (which is not what this forum is about.)