John,
You are correct that the cache date is the last date at which Google's spider crawled the page.
No one can tell you when the penalty assessed against your site will be removed. As I said in my previous posts, I've seen them return in a couple of weeks and I've seen them take a couple of months.
Did you send the re-inclusion request? If so, there is nothing more that you can do except to wait.

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