Most of the stuff mentioned at the top of this thread happened to me rugularly on my old mac, I couldn't click on a thread without it stalling on me. Once I got a new comp, the problem has gone away. I seriously just think that the total amount of usage, historic threads that have been around collecting dust for 6+ years, and the constant updating of numerous different things is going to cause the slowness. I don't know if there is much you can do, with the resources they have, to continually update the site to make it work most efficiently. It sucks, but I think it is going to be a normalcy no matter what.