Connection Between Page rank and SERPS for new site?

New informational site with tons of content still in google oblivion

[tomthumb2000]

Ok, so i understand the mantra "time, time, time" for a new site to climb the charts but i was wondering about the correlation beteen being given page rank for the first time and appearing in the SERPS.

Despite a yahoo and odp listing, relevant titles and headers and around 300,000 words of original content we still have page rank 0. We're visited regularly by googlebot but are in serp oblivion.

We're not pulling any tricks but our keywords are extremely competitive so i wondered if that means the sandbox effect takes longer?

Google gives us pr4 in the directory but i wondered if when they give up pr on the page if that will coincide with featuring in the serps?

Man, i wish we'd launched our project two years ago...

[steveb]

Toolbar pagerank hasn't been updated in three months.

You are (99.9% likely) sandboxed. You just have to wait nine months or so. That's it.

[tomthumb2000]

9 months?
I had no idea it was that bad. I was thinking 3 or 4 at the outside. The only good sandbox thread i found on the sitesearch was in the supporters only section.
Thanks for that.