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okay i updated again.

this time i removed the gradient from the bg image (with the face) and now that ive got a solid in the bg ive also been able to get ride of some images (allowing the bg color to show through the cells) which kinda sucks because i did like the gradient but now im willing to do whatever it takes to get it to load, even a little bit faster.

funny though, i checked it in netscape (just upgraded to 1.7.2) and it loads almost instant. im wondering if ie has something to do with the loadtimes...

im still looking for load times on the above link as i do what i can do bring it down.