I answered my own question I guess...it was a memory problem within PHP. The admin in question had expanded display set as a default and the standard 8M memory limit was being exceeded. However, this raises another question: it seems to me that the expanded display default option causes a higher load on the system than is reasonable. Should I consider diabling this option as a way of helping to solve the forum performance problems?
Also, I changed the default for PHP to 16M. Is there a downside to doing this? The server in question has 8gb of RAM.
Chuck
