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Glad to see you got things worked out. Best practice is to always have a "Disallow: /" rule in place in the root location when building a site, or to build it on an IP address via cpanel. A long long time ago we had an issue like this when we hired a rookie web designer, and had to go through everything making sure it was set correctly. Htaccess, robots, sitemap, sitemap crawl frequency, ODP (open directory project) settings, EVERYTHING. Hope everything works out for your new site! Also, since you are having large load times due to a heavy template style, you may want to check this out:  http://designshack.net/articles/css/18-css-compression-tools-and-techniques/. Compression is your friend