hm.. intresting well im sorry idk? try seeing what simmulaties are beetween the 2 version.. or you could try downloading the older version. If you give more info I could help you....
Finally finding about some of the bots that are flooding the users online - bytespider apparently is a huge offender here - ignores robots.txt and comes in from a ton of different IPs
Ghan has said he has fixed this. Monovertex please confirm this fix. This was only a problem with people that had signatures in the upper levels like not the special members but the respected members.