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Sub dir or not. My bet is that you uploaded the WP folder as well.

Well it is not our fault that you posted your half assed rant without ever mentioning your host, or apparently what the performance of that host is in relation to WP. WP does not impose any burdens on any hosts which are set up in accordance with industry standard. But if hosts do their own thing in config there is no guarantee that anything will work at all.

Just hard code your stuff into index.php

Folk really should not turn up here out of left field proposing a reinstall and all sorts of frightening stuff when they haven’t got a clue what they are doing. Good catch – whooami. 🙂

Doesn’t WP ship with scriptaculous included?

Just use different categories and a new template.

You could use a descendant selector (I think) h2 small {} might work. It would avoid a class. But the best thing is to change the h2 to something smaller h4 etc. Thats what they are for. Small should not have been there in the first place. The mark up is not semantic. I would take it out too.