any idea on how to find out pages with 10/10 PR ??

I know that google.com is a 10/10 but other then that.. .any pointers ??

Why did this search term hang on me .. are others noting the same sndrome ?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=gmail&q=Pages%20with%20PR%2010

I think you can try this...
http://www.searchenginegenie.com/pagerank-10-sites.htm

Yeah, that page is your best start... tho you might want to ask their creators too how they found out about the site.

Another good approach to locate high-PR sites is to google for [www] or [http] and check some of the result sites...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=www&btnG=Google+Search

Wikipedia used to a page that listed all/most/some of the sites that with high PR...