Retromud banner trouble loading/lag

[dpdx]

I'm sure they're cool and all, but their banner ad, at a minimum, takes about twice as long sometimes as the entire rest of the page to load (this on broadband cablemodem). The last time I was "lucky" enough to be served the retromud banner, it 404'ed out, sorta (red x).

The lag is beginning to mess with the rest of the vbb code (like choosing dropdowns during a post, for example).

Is there a chance they can store their banner on a faster server, or something? I'd hate to get my hate on for people I don't even know...