Okay, I did some more research.
I upgraded another WP site to 3.0.0 and am having the exact same issue with it. I tried reverting through Simple Scripts, but still it is slow and causes throttling on my account.
The original site that has been having problems still has them as long as I have a single plugin enabled; it does not matter which plugin, as long as one is enabled, things are terribly slow.
any ideas?
Yes, does not solve the issue.
Brilliant! It worked. Had no idea that not adding the would hyperlink other widgets.
Many thanks, esmi.