One of mine, which has enough content to be an authority site, and its all hand written quality stuff, took a huge hit and disappeared for its main keywords. I'm not sure if its PR related; the only thing I did differently was I did a big scrapebox blast to tier 2-3 links, and those are the keywords that I got delisted for. The site is otherwise still listed and ranking on long tail keywords, but getting only 10% the traffic it was.
i just do not understand why ur site gets penalized in that case.
maybe you have just a bad bounce rate