I've made it past the permissions thing, and the home page (plain yogurt) loads. And the login page loads and I logged in, connected to the community, downloaded some free things (gallery, spacer, etc.) and installed them. Just to get a feel for it all. I did not add them to any of the pages, in fact I haven't done any editing, moving or creating.... yet. Just did the community and functionality thing.

After doing this I tried to reload the home page, but got a black page, so I logged out and closed all the windows. I then tried to load the home page again ~ it took forever to load, I mean crazy long. So I closed all and tested it again this morning - still crazy long.

So my questions are:
(1) Just installing functionality (no blocks) seems to be able to 'mess' c5 up - yes? Why?
(2) Will removing those installs fix this? If not then what?
(3) Where can I find info on editing lay outs, removing things? I noticed in edit mode there are several items that want to 'work' and I cannot delete them. I would think deleting would be part of edit, but I see now that edit only means text in blocks. How do I move to editing layout pieces?
(4) How can I maintain the efficiency of the website when adding functionality components?

I am using the latest version of FireFox for viewing.
I'm a hand-coder, but completely new to this 'let a program make all the decisions' thing.
The site is athttp://www.broncflint.org/FPC
Any best-practices tips are much appreciated.

Thank you