I find it pretty darn slow too - both from my work connection or from home (two different ISP's). Mind you, the entire internet seems to be grinding to a halt these days! ("Information Superhighway" indeed! :) heh heh, sounds familiar! It wouldn't be so bad if it only did it when you first hit the main page from another site or a new browser connection, but the fact that it's every time you go back to the main page is really annoying... tripod could be worse though; at least their pop-out windows don't contain a huge amount of graphics, so you can close the window almost as soon as it pops up. I came across one site once that used external windows that you couldn't close until you killed the browser session - very nice! :-( cheers Jules