It might be the number of boards you have also Ian. The admin page has 4 queries for the totals and 4 x No of Boards queries for the rest of them so for 10 boards you will end up with 44 queries in the database and 44 for loops to display the data.
I will see if I can split the admin section so that it doesn't kill any servers.
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