>I have become quite used to the little dance done by the UT "home page" (I guess that's what the first page of UT is called) when I first access the Universal Thread - the screen re-draws itself about 6-7 times in rapid succession until, finally, the UT circle logo and the entry fields appear.
>But, the last couple of days, the LAST redraw seems to be taking a LOONNNGGG TTIIIMMMMEEEE, and of course there are no entry boxes when this happens. I have even had it in the last two days where everything BUT the entry boxes was there, and after waiting 5 minutes I simply d-clicked out of the net and tried again later.

Everything is as usual here. I didn't get any feedback on this. Could it that your ISP is changing or has changed something? Do you have another line you can go on the net from to see if you have the same behavior from elsewhere? Have you tried to clear your cache?