I am continuing to have what I consider excessive load times, which I seem to only experience with this site. (To the best of my knowledge.) I have recently had my machine rebuilt, and I am using a superfast connection, with Firefox (To my knowledge the latest version); I've also set my settings so I no longer have user's avatars displayed, and I'm about to get rid of signatures as well.
I'm not sure if anything else would be helpful here, or if anyone else is experiencing this same problem.