Robots Meta Tag Dismissed by Google?

Some of my website's pages have the "NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" robots meta
tag:
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOARCHIVE"/>

Google indexed several of such pages. I used the Google Webmaster
Central URL removal tool to exclude the pages from being indexed.

Why were the pages indexed in the first place when the pages always
have this tag?

After a couple of hours, most of the pages were removed. The strange
thing is that the removal of the remaining pages was denied.

I did a little more investigation. The Fetch as Googlebot tool clearly
displayed the Noindex,Nofollow robots meta tag.

Then I looked at the cached page source code and the
"Noindex,Nofollow" was not on the page.
<meta name="ROBOTS" content=""/>

Why is the content missing from the page while the Fetch as Googlebot
tool page source is not ?

Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Stephan

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