See what your pages looked like from the previous owner. I looked at mine and they had a bunch of bs on them which might account for it being sandboxed. http://www.archive.org/index.php
Building more quality link I think will help you a lot and Also Pinging your blog and submit it to digg social bookmarking will easily indexed your page.
Well, i think if google is crawling your home page daily, it must have got indexed till yet. but still, you can check website from this command site : site url