This is not surprising. His critics are/were the most well know scientists out there. Did you ever wonder why you may have read his critics, and not Velikovsky himself? (I realize that just by mentioning his name I'll be branded a kook). I've been waiting over 4 months to recieve a used copy of Ages in Chaos. You can order any of the books about his work by his critics from Amazon.com. I'm not necessarily pushing his work, but I think it does deserve to be considered (and would be very curious to hear your opinion of it, if you would give it a fair chance). I think you would enjoy reading his work because you've been all over his territory in this thread without even knowing it.
There is also this thing called the "Velikovsky affair". It's a documented account of how the mainstream scientific community tried to stop his original book from being published- before anyone even read it. Peers wrote scathing reviews without reading the manuscript, and the publisher of the book (which became a best-seller) was blackballed and coersed to drop him. Most of the people who gave him any support at all lost grants and positions at universities. It's a very interesting account of PC science versus some new ideas about things.
(BTW I checked out the web page about your book several months ago and think it looks very interesting- maybe over my head though. I own property along a river and have been waiting for the day that the govt. comes to claim it. I consider myself the custodian and protector of the land and spend most of my time trying to keep city folk from destroying it. Everyone that stumbles upon it thinks it should be public land because it's so "pretty". The funny thing they don't get is that it wouldn't stay pretty for long if I didn't run them off.)