It does confirm one thing though... I've always thought putting "Gazza" in the title was a waste of time on the forums. ;o)
As for the sticking listings, doesn't this usually turn out to be down to load on the system? When there's a major load/re-load/delete going on, everybody else's stuff grinds to a halt. In which case the only solution would be to have massively extra capacity on processing power - and I'd guess that would mean throwing money at it.