Jeff, the boards are working fine for me. One thing to consider is with all the recent events of the world many bottlenecks in the net are now being taxed big time due to extra web traffic.
Also, a little idea for ya. Goto your start button in windows and select "run" from the menu. In the window that pops up enter the following line:
tracert boards.elitefitness.com
A dos window will open and all the servers in route to the message board will be pinged and it will show a server on each line with its corresponding ms time for a packet to be sent and acknowledged. Now the server the boards are on black holes pings so you wont be able to tell exactly what the ping times are to elite, but you should be able to tell if any server along the way is dropping packets or has very high ping times. If that is the case the problem likely lies in the route between you and elite and not at elite itself.