peebo wrote:
yes it does seem a good bit faster. but i wonder if thats why the site now doesn't display properly in my safari browser. it doesn't frame the page in the window, bleeding off the right hand side, but yet no horizontal scrollbar, although it displays ok in firefox.

I'm currently in the proccess of revamping the ugly HTML code that the site outputs and Safari isn't liking the cleaner code in its present state (I had been using firefox to test the new edits since most people use that ).
However, since I'm a Mac/Linux guy, I use Safari/KHTML more than any other browser/engine, so this won't be a problem for long.