Nice project Joshua.

I have not used VS2008 yet but my VS2005 has such kind of problems (not with compiling but with starting/ending time)
I never understood while loading (even to the blank project) or unloading should take so much time. I have set it not to load any project but still it takes me 10-15 secs to launch it.

In comparison, Netbeans is terrible in the loading phase but closes very fast. Anyway, VS is still the best.