Hey Ted,
I think I might have something that would get you where you want to be. Take a look at this page:
Shop - Sundew Search - Carnivorous Plant News Center.
This sub-site uses the free templates from RSSMini. You can create pages that pull different RSS feeds and convert it into page content. You just tell it what keyword to use and it does the rest.
What I did here though is later added my affiliate code from AuctionAds into the page code, and all the links to Ebay become my affiliate links. You could use something like this for your site, and the nice thing is that if you look at the page code, there is a small amount of text for each RSS link, which gives the page some content. You'll notice that this page Doesn't have any Pagerank, but it's better than nothing.... :-)