So I accidently applied a theme that required 2.9 (I was on 2.8) So I manually upgraded to 2.9 by deleting old files, replacing with new files etc, all good..
The website itself works perfectly, however all admin pages take a good few minutes to load.. After installing the WP-Tuner plugin, I'm noticing that it's the Init process that is the source of the delay, 100% load time, 120 seconds.
What would be causing this delay? No plugins enabled, and it's only a delay in the admin pages.. frontend blog pages are fine.