Well now, there's a huge improvement this morning (9am over here in the UK). Rendo pages loading almost instantaneously, and - compared with yesterday evening (it was close to 10pm) very smoothly. Download back to normal (forgot to time it, though). So I retract my rude remarks about wading and treacle and just hope that today's performance will be maintained. And I see Gallery Pages are back for the 'Whats New' items; which is nice.