Getit- Google takes time... a lot of it. and some foot rubs. I have ranked #1 for lots of search terms with MSN that usually result in top 10 Yahoo and sometimes not even reaching top 500 in Google...
Make sure your backlinks are from legitimate sites that Google would not have ethical issues with, and don't get too many too quick. Part of me wants to say that perhaps there is something more important to Google these days than ibl's... but then I do a search for
Miserable Failure...