From looking at this I would say that if I was going to buy a script today this is the one that I would buy.
Yes you do need a script to run a link list if you intend to have anything besides a small hub.
My link list is actually a combo of a link list script, a banner rotator, a traffic script, and a link rotator all pulled together using JavaScript, PHP, and SSI.
I still think that scripts are like computers, they all suck, just some suck less then others.