>Hi All,
>
>Anyone know why IE8 has a long pause with the title "Connecting..." everytime you try and go to a new page? What the heck is it doing? IE7, Firefox, etc dont do this.

No idea...I never made it that far. Windows Update figured my computer needed to upgrade to IE8 so I thought that I'd give it a try. After a lot of rebooting and installing and rebooting, IE8 failed to start due to a .NET JIT error or something like that. Not only that, but, Windows Updater also crashed with the same error.

That was enough crap for me so off it went and back to IE7. Things are working "fine" again. BTW, have you ever tried going to this site:
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/Plugins/date ? IE7 bogs down and eventually tells me that scripts are slowing it down and do I want to continue running them. WTF? Chrome has no problems at all showing that site. What does IE8 do?