I find PM's area to be usually extremely slow too.

I also always wonder how many PM's are stored in MLU wonder if that could slow things down? I dunno. I do know that most forums have a "limit" on how many PM's can be stored at a time, but MLU has no limit. I once had about 3,000 (which reminds me, time to clean out my PM's again ... am usually too lazy to delete them after reading them .............