[open32]

I have noticed with IE 6, that read posts are not immeadiately marked as read and that the last post is not always the post shown on the main menu page.

I actually get that with IE7. For me its nothing new to the new layout. Just cookies not refreshing. You can attempt to force it with the Mark Forums Read button at the bottm.

I was just logged off, although I didn´t log off.

But now the layout is okay.

That sounds like a good sign. When the cookies are deleted you should enter the site logged off. Hopefully the layout stays the way it is. About the speed, you have talked about that before so its nothing to do with the new site layout though I do find it loads a little slower lately. Since you said other sites you visit are fast and fanhost runs are a decent speed for most im not sure what it can be. The only thing I can think of with the speed is it has something to do with your internet provider (being from germany) not connecting well to the fanhost servers or visa versa.