Marcia - 11:09 pm on Oct 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

>>4. Why do sites in the sandbox index appear in the link:www.oldsite.com from the main index

Exactly. A link from a domain not even registered until July 1, 2004 shows up for link:www.mysite.com

5. Why are sites registered long ago, indexed and ranking for well over a year, now exhibiting some of the the identical symptoms as the sandboxed sites, except that their PR shows because of having been in the index prior to the TBPR lag?

What is the common denominator (or denominators) between the sandbox and Florida?