I heard it had something to do with my domain being marked as "parked". It was a "bug" that hopefully has been fixed. But I agree, I certainly hope all the work I did in my panic to find my way back out of oblivion helps me. I can see already my new robots.txt file has worked better and there are no more 404 pages. I will have to wait until the home page is recrawled.

A scary thing that one character could take down many small businesses, very scary.