To begin to track down the cause of the delay I set up a dummy user with administrator's privileges and fast user switching. This 'testuser' may be useful for many other purposes later on. Safari loadtime for testuser decreased from 16-17 bounces to one bounce. That's the Safari that we knew and loved.

Now I need to discover where is the dead weight in my normal administrator's account. However, having done a fair job of hijacking Drew's thread already, I shall start a new one when I have something further to report.

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