I know windows 2000 can create all sorts of issues on our site and we do not test for win2k since it is < .001% of our user base. We just can't develop for that and are soon dropping IE6 just like many major sites are dropping support.

Wasson - your issue sounds like network route more then anything. next time can you do a traceroute to our site. also if it is forum photos loading slow you need to right click on them and copy the link path. then do a traceroute on that. we use limelight networks CDN to show all our photos. this should actually speed up their display. However if it is a new thread or one that is not in their cache a first time hit can lag becaues they must pull from our origin then send to your local server where you pick it up from. that is one small inefficiency of using CDN's for content distribution