Still broke. Check out the connection lags with fsockopen() with a domain/sub-domain vs an ip address. I'd use an ip address to get around the lag but that doesn't work with domains or sub-domains on the same server. Under normal operation conditions, this whole script should take less than a second... not 34 seconds. Eeek!
Something tells me this isn't going to be resolved until after the weekend holiday...
Well, it might be, but I'm going to the parents soon.