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Hmm. This is just a guess, but was the server change mainly for the sake of additional storage space (and/or bandwidth allowance), rather than increased performance?
It's probably been suggested before, but it seems more and more as if this site could use a maximum image size. Either you can prevent images above some logical level (512 or 768 KB) from being uploaded, or maybe you could find something that re-renders the big images into something more web-presentable.
Those 1.5 to 3MB images are ridiculous - a lot of the time they don't even look that great, because some chick didn't bother shrinking the image from her low quality point and shoot or cell phone before uploading it to the web. They're not terribly nice to load from the user end either, for those with merely adequate internet like myself. :P
I'm not sure if you mean this to be related to the speed issue, but there really isn't any connection between image size and the way in which the site is "slower" on this site than previously.
But apart from that, I'm split on the idea of a smaller max image size (currently it's 3.5 MB I think)... If I decreased it, rather than people resizing those big pictures and uploading them in a smaller version, they would probably just not upload them at all. And even though a slightly smaller picture is better than a HUGE picture, a huge picture is still better than not having that picture at all (especially if it's a good picture).