I'm going to third (or fourth) the complaint about the speed being affected by the infernal menu. I have DSL and the site just hangs when you are trying to look at a picture in the gallery, because it has to load those graphics (that for some reason do not cache) before it can display the artist's images.

PLEASE make it one graphic with an image map or go back to the text. It's slowing the system down a lot.

rdonovan,
Not a bad fix, but it also makes it difficult to get to some parts of the site that are only accessible from that top menu (especially chat) and a roundabout way to get to the forums/galleries if you read/view more than one.

ShadowWind