super slow speeds from director FIXED!

[Matthew]

Well isn't this fan-damn-tastic. Turns out it wasn't our problem at all. 
  We noticed that things started picking up speed around 3.  We all 
assumed it was because I moved www to point to wwwdb1, thus bypassing 
the LVS.

 From our hosting provider, thePlanet.com:

After careful analysis of outbound throughput issues with various 
providers The Planet engineers determined that a gradual route table 
exhaustion was at the core of an increasing number of issues. It was 
determined that to repair this issue an emergency reload of the router 
dsr01.dllstx3 was required. At approximately 2:42pm CST we reloaded this 
router. There was a brief period of packet loss as the redundant assumed 
the load and at 2:51pm CST as the router re-converged. By 2:53pm CST all 
traffic was forwarding normally.

Amazing.

For some reason I feel necessary to apologize to the list for breaking 
out the whip in my search for answers.  Turns out it was outta my hand 
from the beginning.

Thanks to all who offered help, most notably Joe, Graeme and Roberto.

You guys rock!

Cheers,
Matthew