Took me about 1m 45s to load the first page and I'm connecting at 49.2 Kbps.
A little long. You might want to offer a low bandwidth version of the site or try reducing the color depth of the images to 256 to reduce the file size.
dave, i have reduced the jpeg quality of the template image to 75 percent. please try it again and let me know how long it takes your computer to see my site.