I, too have recently been experiencing slowdowns. In my case, I though it might have something to do with the firewall/proxy-server(s) have here at work, but it seems to happen on my own office machine as well. For the record I only have the following nodelets running:

• Chatterbox
• personal nodelet
• Other Users
• leftovers
• approval nodelet

I don't use either the CPAN or Everything nodelets... it's still slow for me.

BTW, can anyone explain to me the difference between the frontpage nodelets and Non-Frontpage nodelets (I haven't really been able to determine when I ought to be seeing my Non-Frontpage nodelets.

dmm