I had a server with osCommerce set up and running on it. Someone just told me about Zen Cart, so I decided to try it. The install went fine, and setting up the admin went fine. What's not fine is that the catalog itself is slow. Not horribly slow like some people here have mentioned (10+ second page loads), but each page load is taking between 1.5 and 3 seconds and I can't figure out why. Here are some sample parse times

Parse Time: 1.481 - Number of Queries: 43 - Query Time: 0.04258829524231
Parse Time: 1.611 - Number of Queries: 63 - Query Time: 0.06126887361145
Parse Time: 2.401 - Number of Queries: 141 - Query Time: 0.14540380244446
Parse Time: 2.113 - Number of Queries: 167 - Query Time: 0.12346168908691
Parse Time: 2.065 - Number of Queries: 194 - Query Time: 0.13132462286377
Parse Time: 1.714 - Number of Queries: 200 - Query Time: 0.13495773448181
Parse Time: 1.932 - Number of Queries: 83 - Query Time: 0.066764063919067

As you can see, the MySQL query times are very low, like they should be. But why are my Parse Time's so high? I have turned almost every option off. There are only 3 info boxes on the page, and the banners are gone. There are only 2 items in the catalog and there are no orders placed so far. I have disabled all of the New Products, Upcoming Products, Featured Products, etc. What's confusing me is that all of my other domains are running just fine, including 3 installs of osCommerce. I'm getting Parse Times from the osCommerce installs close to 0.2 and 0.3 seconds. I realize that osCommerce is similar to Zen Cart, but Zen Cart has lots of more installed options by default, as well as a lot more tables in the database, but Zen Cart is not doing 10 times as much as osCommerce is, so why is it taking 10 times as long to parse a page load?

You can see both of my stores here, they are almost identical
osCommerce Version - http://www.mypcwerks.com/store/
Zen Cart Version - http://www.mypcwerks.com/store2/

Can anyone tell me what could possible be wrong? If you need more details about the server or any of the software or setup, please let me know. I have been searching and trying things for 8 hours straight now and I am all out of ideas!!!!!