>FWIW On initial login it takes about 1-2 Secs to fully load & refresh the screen from here.
That is also pretty fast. Whenever you do a login, there is at least 7 to 8 hits done to the server. So, that is a lot of job to load everything up. It's difficult to be any faster than that. Wherever I go elsewhere on the net to load an interface such as Facebook, it takes longer than that.