Hi Andy,
First, please follow the steps in this thread:
[url]http://www.firetongue.com/boards/showthread.php?p=12395#2[/url]
It should fix the performance problem.
Regarding Amazon and FreeDB problem, can you post a session log for each. To get the logs, switch to "Session Log" tab when you see the error message, and copy text from there. I am sure it is easy to fix.
Andrei