Google links problem

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I've got a problem with referring links to my site.

Confusingly, when I search link:the-name-of-my-site.co.uk, only 5 pages are mentioned, yet under my google tools, in the "What Googlebot sees" there are at least 18 different site link terms. And under this part of my google dashboard -
Links > Pages with external links
there are 101 links in total logged that point to my site.

Does anyone have any input as to why these aren't searchable by "link:the-name-of-my-site" on google? Would their absence potentially mean my ranking is lower than it should be?

Even more strangely, when I use this tool the link popularity tool from the SEO Positive site, I don't get any links for google at all (not even my own site appears), despite getting results for altavista and yahoo etc, anyone have any ideas on this?