I've noticed for the past day or so that the shoutbox is hanging on loading, or taking an unusual amount of time to load. This is with no new shouts having been added for several days. Not sure what's going on with it, but thought I'd give a heads up in case my sites not the only one it's happening with.

Is it still taking a long time? Are your other members experiencing this? When I checked it out, it loaded normally quick for me.

Since we are on the subject of shout boxes, i seen the "Access Feature" for who can post to them, but i would like all my Council members to be able to delete. We use a shout box as an Instace Request for scheduling, once it is scheduled, i would like the scheduler to be able to delete, that request.

That's based on the "officer" (Forum Administration) option in Feature Access.