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Once I finish my mixdowns, I just throw a limiter on it and make it rest at -0db peak. I've run my projects through Spek and I've noticed that it is only sitting around -2db. Why is this?

Its your DAW counteracting the loudness war.

How do I fix this? Because to my knowledge I thought I was creating fluent enough mix downs.

have you tried using another analyzer?

you do realise that speks vertical axis is showing frequency ? the db level is shown by the colour, so the louder parts are red, quieter parts blue/purple etc

so yeh your tunes prob are peaking at 0db. grab a free freq analyzer and level meter. also worth grabbing this http://www.solidstatelogic.com/music/X-ISM/ and this http://www.dynamicrange.de/free-downloads if you want to get really critical

Why do i have a funny suspicion your DAW has meters?

Trust them.