FWIW, site speed is on par with most others I visit now. The only thing that changed on my end is newly installed IE 8. Maybe some site tweaks made the difference, otherwise IE 8 and PC are fully compatible (so far). The speed improvement and overall look of the site are much better than even Firefox 3.0.
Woo hoo! Thanks for letting me know, Amped. Remember the days when PC was slower than a Hypermiler going uphill?