Hopefully you didn't pay more than $1 each for them. A couple of weeks isn't anything to wait for cycad seeds. You don't even know how far along the embryos are so you don't know if they are ready to sprout or if they need another month before they start. Nobody ever checks seeds when they have only 5 of them so most retail people just have to guess. You are right about the soaking, I wouldn't go more than a day or two myself and I have planted about 100,000 cycad seeds. I have 2 articles on germination so if it is ok with everyone else, I will send you the address to my article page:
http://cycadjungle.8m.com/cycadjungle/articles.html

i guess its been a long time since i've been back, or i might have not seen that link, or i forgot i've read it. Anyways, i was out watering my banana plants and compost, when i started looking around at my seedlings, among them were a single seed of the above type, i am pretty happy about finding it, as this makes hope for some other lost seeds in the compost. The only downside is that i've turned it so many times, im sure some of them are to far down. The zamia had only just put out the taproot probably within this week, but i transfered it to a 3 gallon pot that has a young banana and a just sprouted mimosa and ponytail palm. I am waiting for our local hydro store to get in some more 1/2 and 1 gallon pots so i can place all my seedlings in those. Thanks for the link, and i'll take a look at that now.