Well, first off, I will tell you that I am NOT using IE7 yet, and probably won't for a little while longer. My home PC still has IE6SP2 with all of the recent updates. I use the same browser at work (fully updated IE6SP2) and your site does exactly the same thing here (loads a black bg and freezes up there). So maybe there is some code on there that IE6 doesn't like?? Have you tried loading your site on a PC with IE6SP2? BTW, I clear my cache, cookies and history all the time...
Your site seems to load just fine in Firefox, but your alignment is jacked in Opera. The version of Opera I have is older though, so maybe it will look right in the newer vesions. I was just curious because I build a lot of websites and I always wonder what's going on when a site fails to load. What is AJAX? Is that a web server like Apache or is that some sort of coding like Javascript or something?
Bart