[TECK]

hehe, no wonder you have 20queries.

first, you added there the template microstats, that is already cached in the /forum/global.php file (i hope you did add it there).
second you forgot to put a comma after the word microstats, so all the templates after that are not cached anymore... in other words for every template listed after microststs it will load a a query instead, because is not saved in the server memory anymore...

do this nokia, remove the microstats. your list of templates should look like this:

$templatesused = 'home,home_articlebits,home_footer,home_header,home_headinclude,home_threadbits,home_welcomeguest,home_articlecomment,';
$templatesused.= 'home_welcomeuser,home_pollresult,home_polloption_multiple,home_polloption,home_pollcomment,home_articlenocomment,';
$templatesused.= 'home_pollresults,home_pollresults_closed,home_pollresults_voted,home_polloptions,home_pmloggedin';

then, just to be safe, open /forum/global.php and make sure your microstats template is listed like that there:

$templatesused.=',pagenav,pagenav_curpage,pagenav_firstlink,pagenav_lastlink,pagenav_nextlink,pagenav_pagelink,pagenav_prevlink,home_microstats';

never NEVER, add the template like that, without the comma, if it is in a link string. let me know what's the number of queries you have after... it will be 14 i quarantee you.

and the page will load fast, the way you like it.
enable all options and let me know how it does it on your server...