>Just tested again. Clicking on the refresh messages button at top refreshed the bottom frame but not the top. I could not see the messages and lost them all when I had refresh again.

That seems to be what I mentioned.

>However, no other websites are demonstrating any slowness at all... And Naomi is in Wisconsin.

The routing mechanism on the net varies from one point to another. I have seen situation that one location nearby was working pretty much ok but not a few streets away, and from the same provider.