pureoctane,
Yes, this is going up on my site, but if I post it on a few other sites for backlinks, will that affect the one on my site in any way?
post the article on your blog and wait until its indexed.
Then spin and submit it to a bunch of directories.
Next bookmark it on every bookmarking site you have accounts
Use spun copies as content for web 2.0 sites you own.
Rewrite the article a bit into a press release
Make a copy of the article into an ebook and submit it to ebook sites
Turn the article into a video with some the article text and some images and post on various video sites.
Also, how would you check the content of the article. Its 100% unique, but that does not guarantee that it will looks unique to google.
Copyscape is the industry standard for this kind of task. You have to pay a little fee, but it's worth it.