Stevietheman - 8:28 pm on Mar 17, 2011 (gmt 0)

are you sure its not cache built up in IE8 vs IE9 being fresh with no cached content?

I don't follow. If IE9 takes much longer to load based on a similar-sized cache that IE8 had, it would seem to be IE9 that has the performance issue there. What am I missing?