As of this morning (5/23/2010) I have the latest version of S&D and the latest updates; I'm running XP Pro with plenty of speed, memory (and it's almost as good looking as I am ) but it still loads extremely slowly. Further, as it is loading my desktop is a "transparent" image behind the S&D display until it is fully loaded.

Anybody have a way to fix this? I saw an earlier post about v. 1.5 (?) that said the problem had been fixed but that's clearly not the case with my machine.