That's odd, I've never had the "refresh" problem once. Anyways I've just optimized the database - there where a few places that needed to be updated and now are, lets hope that helps.
As far as vB3 - I'm very excited about upgrading to vB3. It's been claimed to speed UP the forum. mcvickj you're the first one I've heard saying it is slower. None the less it's because of this and a few other reasons why we're not using vB3 right now. I want to wait a lil longer to make sure that the "gold" version of vB3 is indeed a stable version and I don't want RCNT to be the one to find out if it's stable or not.
I will say this though, there are going to be a LOT of changes around here once we start upgrading - hopefully for the better!
-Michael