As OpenLayers is causing is more trouble than we anticipated, here's something to do for anyone who is not a dev team member, but wants to contribute. If you know a bit of JavaScript, that would help.
Some alternatives worth investigating:
http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/examples/geojson.htmlhttp://polymaps.org/ex/I'm looking for more than just opinions. If you pick apart the dynamic map page, you can see the javascript for OpenLayers including where it fetches the data and map images.
If someone can create a replacement using any of the above, we could compare them regarding features, load speed, browser compatability, etc.
