Ha ha, google freaked out again
 

we have one site PR3 now
the site has only one sentence in it saying that the site is down due to unpaid debts of the company it was made for

There ust be good links leading to it.

I noticed a really big mashup of PR ratings and serps, some of which surprised me, some of which were merely "about fucking time!"

yes, one of our directories is PR1 now (1 yrs old site), one site is PR5 (old domain), one is PR2 (new domain) ...all domains are up , one week domain is PR2 now

a lot of nonsense in the ratings

Toolbar PageRank is simply a number reflecting where a page falls on logarithmic scale of the true Page Rank value of the page based on inbound links to that page.

Has absolutely nothing to do with content on the page or anything else.

If there was grade 1-12 for search engine knowledge, I would put this simple information at kindergarten level.