Deano's web site says he's been offline for a while and 'getting back online', though it seems as though recently (1-2 days ago) something with his licensing server went wonky causing downstream issues. Finally traced it today and found my 30-60+ second delays in page loading was due to his mods calling home in a blocking manner and basically taking my site down in the process. Removing his mod (or lying to my /etc/hosts file) instantly corrected the issue (for anyone who may be experiencing the see more same strange behavior on their site).