driller41 - 4:15 pm on Jun 9, 2011 (gmt 0)

Perhaps, if it was just my own sites I would agree, but his sites are totally different to mine in every respect apart from keyworded domain names.

No changes were made to any sites, it is my understanding that a penalty lift would only be done after respidering detected the removal of the reason for the penalty, of course the backlinks could have changed outside of our control but again it is unlikely that the backlink profiles could have altered across so many sites at the same time.