Whatever's causing this problem, this or something similar is also hanging up all of Community Server 2007!! Some chatters just tonight reported that their chat submissions were not showing up and after three refreshes they couldn't even load the interface, so they closed their browsers and it came back up. Meanwhile, at the exact same time, I was in the forums trying to reply to a post (the post I was replying to was a 'thank you for fixing the performance issues' message, ironically), but the whole site suddenly locked up and wouldn't ever finish loading until three or four minutes later.
CuteSoft, please examine this and confirm that you can reproduce it.