Everytime I go into a thread now, it mostly only loads up the first post of the thread and thats it.  And on the occassion that It will load up the whole thread, it takes up to 5 minutes (as opossed to 10-20 seconds that it used to take)

I have my post count set to 10 per page, and I've used Chrome and Firefox and its the same results.

Everything else like the main page loads just fine (although it does take about 10 seconds longer than it used to take)

Any ideas?

Same way here.

I just hit reply and read the last few post.

I had this problem, I reinstalled FF and it works fine now.

Ok I got it fixed.  Turned out their was a virus on my computer...

Yeah, those do tend to cause strange things to happen.

Typically when only the first post is loading it is a connection issue, either due to overload of the system (if we got dugg, but due to server upgrades this hasn't overloaded us recently) or your end (virus, poor connection)

I was just about to say scan your PC.

Same happened me yesterday.