ICQ in profile makes for slooooooooow load time.

[Nephilim]

After removing the ICQ UIN from my profile, any page with a post by me on it should load about 10,000% faster. The board skin overlays a hotlinked image from web.icq.com (or somewhere on the icq.com network), which takes around 8-9 seconds on a good day to load over broadband. So, until it gets sorted out, I would suggest not entering an ICQ number in your profile.

[dvsDave]

the next version of phpBB is supposed to address this... but I would also recommend this as well!