I have no problem with "olive oil" or "popeye"; I like the short cuts on the navigation bar being available.

It's the flash ads that are slowing the pages down.

The web scripts being loaded for each page, while large, run ok.

I'll use the navigation bar as an example. Without setting the Flash Quality on Each of the adverts to low, If I "mouse over" to, say, "Extras" it takes up to 2 seconds for the 11 options from "blogs @..." to "Town Hall" to appear. After setting the adverts to low quality, the same menu appears in less than half a second.

The same for most other screen activities. It's really most noticable when editing a post. Click the Quote Icon and wait for the disolg box to appear. Sometime, quite often there is a noticable time lag with even simple keystrokes.

I've taken to using Flyer Talk Archives (AKA FT Lite) to get around the problem; but this really is not the solution.

As I wrote in a related post, I will not be using any of these 'smileys' as these ads simply have a negative impact on me.