I’m not signing up for Adsense, but would this get me banned from Google…?

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I'm looking into setting up my own blog on google but without using adsense. I'm going to put bits from all of my Triond/Bukisa/Associated Content/eHow articles on this blog and link to them so that readers can read the rest of it.

There are some concerns I have though, I know if I do this stuff while signed up with Adsense, I will get banned, but will any of this ban me from Google period without having adsense:

1) Since this blog will have links to my articles, will this result in me getting banned for i.e. excessive linking?

2) I plan on using partial auto surf/web traffic to drive some of the hits.

3) I plan to promote my blog on sites like delicious and furl and reddit, etc. I'm not posting every single blog post on there, but I just plan on posting a single post regarding my blog on each social bookmarking site, that's it. So its not spamming, its only one post per site, thats it.

4) I also plan to use linkbucks which uses link cloaking.

Once again, I'm not signing up for adsense period because I know if I do any of these things I would get banned, I'm just going to create a blog with google, so would any of those 4 things get me banned from google period or is that only with adsense?

P.S. Also, would anyone here happen to know of a service like adsense which won't ban you for those types of things?