Quote: "Using the FF Extension Adblock Plus, I block that image, and everything works perfectly smoothly "
Hmm, ok, I suspect what is happening is after it loads that image it makes a call to the logdnet server to tell them about our site, and puts logd.dragonground.net on a list of running servers.
I cannot remove this image as it would go against the license to use the software, and I would be banned from being on the public list of running servers
I'll see about enabling caching to see if that clears up the issue, but I wonder if it's not the image slowing things down. I don't know, as I have not experienced any slowdown really, in IE.
I've checked further and it does appear that the call to the logdnet server (list of running servers) is what is slowing it down. I'll check it out and see what can be done.