I was having the same issues (a sudden transition from instant load times to extremely long delays). Monitoring the HTTP requests sent out during a page load I noticed that anything to a.tribalfusion.com was timing out and causing the pages' rendering to hang. I noted this behavior on Opera 9p2 and 6.05, Firefox 1.5.02, and IE6 on Win2k as well as Firefox 1.5.0.2 and Opera 9p2 on Ubuntu Dapper.
In all cases the situation was rectified by making a.tribalfusion.com resolve to localhost by setting it as a static route in the appropriate HOSTS file ('windir/system32/drivers/etc/HOSTS' for my Win2k machines and '/etc/hosts' for my linux machines).
I have tried to avoid blocking ads on WrongPlanet but for the tribalfusion servers an exception must be made.
This may or may not be the same issue that you are experiencing but I would give the above solution a try.
27 Apr 2006, 1:41 pm
