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Everything is loading fine for me. 

Thanks. When I click, it hangs and hangs. Been doing it off and on for a week.

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Thanks. When I click, it hangs and hangs. Been doing it off and on for a week.
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try running a tracert from your PC to your site (type tracert plasticpumpkin.com at the command line).

It took 18 hops to get to it.

Tracing route to plasticpumpkin.com [205.178.167.35]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  2XXXXX
  2    55 ms    55 ms    55 ms  XXXX-dsl-XXX-197.XXX.qwest.net [XXX]

  3    55 ms    56 ms    56 ms  XXX-agw1.inet.qwest.net [XXX]
  4    55 ms    55 ms    56 ms  XX-core-01.inet.qwest.net [XXX]
  5    80 ms    80 ms    80 ms  dal-core-02.inet.qwest.net [XXXXX]
  6    80 ms    80 ms    79 ms  dap-brdr-01.inet.qwest.net [XXX]
  7  102 ms  101 ms  103 ms  dpr1-so-1-2-0.dallasequinix.savvis.net [XXX]
  8  134 ms  103 ms  102 ms  dcr1-so-5-0-0.dallas.savvis.net [XXXX]

  9  103 ms  104 ms  105 ms  dcr1-as1.atlanta.savvis.net [XXX]
10  116 ms  116 ms  117 ms  bcs2-so-1-1-0.Washington.savvis.net [XXX]
11  116 ms  205 ms  115 ms  bhr1-pos-10-0.Sterling2dc3.savvis.net [2XXX]
12  114 ms  113 ms  114 ms  bhr1-pos-10-0.Sterling2dc3.savvis.net [XXX
13  116 ms  116 ms  116 ms  XXXX
14  116 ms  116 ms  114 ms  XXXX
15  116 ms  115 ms  115 ms  mc-ft-fw-01-XXXX.netsol.com [XXX]
16  115 ms  116 ms  115 ms  mc-swr-02-net.dc2.netsol.com [XXXX]
17  115 ms  116 ms  115 ms  mc-swr-02-nXXXXom [XXXX]
18  115 ms  115 ms  115 ms 

I just ran a trace from dnsstuff.com (their server is located in Virginia) and there was a timeout at:

205.178.191.10 AS6245
NETWORK-SOLUTIONS [Timeout] 0 miles [+0] 245 CA Unix: 2:19:04.236

The 2nd trace there was congestion at netsol too.

Everything from NY is fine though (and your site is loading fast)

Thanks, BBH.

I'm getting really sick of the Network Solutions congestion. I'll be calling them tomorrow.

I bet I'm going to have to do the site all over again--this time with software and Dreamhost.

Super fast here in ABQ. 

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Super fast here in ABQ.  
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Ditto the fast in NY on both our cable and DSL connections. 

OK! Still working on the new X Cart site, but here's a preliminary draft.

I'm having trouble with the way it displays in IE.

If you have both FireFox and IE, can you please do me a favor?

In Firefox, the site looks OK. It fills the screen up just fine. The center table (with the square department icons) stretches to both of the side column menus nicely:
http://www.plasticpumpkin.com/store/xcart/home.php

If you look at this same page in Internet Explorer, however...

There's a big vacant column between the left orange menu and the start of the department icon table. 

I've tried tweaking the table size, templates, and everything I can think of. There's still a big ugly white gutter between the left menu and the square graphics table in Internet Explorer. FireFox looks great, though...??

It's looking good in FF but I am seeing the vacant column on the left side. Did you try validating your code at W3? It's great at catching coding errors.

PS//How do you like x-cart at this point?