Hi Daniel,yeah it's intermitant and started with the change over.
Eg.it seems to occur when switching forums mainly,running down from reply to reply is fine but then selecting the home button often takes an eternity,then the same once home,selecting,say the classifieds forum....waiting,waiting.
As i said it's intermittant but not exclusive to my specific description.
Thanks for your efforts with all this anyway Daniel,i guess we would all be screwed without you guys.
Cheers
Rob

Edit: As an exercise i just timed the time it took (after completing and sending this original unedited post)and watching it come back up from the moment i touched the home tab in the main menu till i had the home page come up took 97 seconds.