Well there are two logics:
1. Mix backlinks with many PR0, nofollow , etc... and increase
the likelihood of being banned (if you landed on a blacklisted blog or a blog that has a very high spam rate)
2. Use only high PR and risk being seen as unnatural or not mixed enough by google bots.
As far as I can see, there are risks in both cases. but 2 is less effort.