I recommend installing the refocus skin (sadly it's not in the repo but you can grab it here: http://xbmc-focus.googlecode.com/files/skin.refocus.release-0.9.5.

I recommend installing the refocus skin (sadly it's not in the repo but you can grab it here: http://xbmc-focus.googlecode.com/files/skin.refocus.release-0.9.5.zip http://xbmc-focus.googlecode.com/files/skin.refocus.release-... and install via USB), it gives me around 10 extra FPS over the stock Confluence skin. Have you overclocked yet? If you run at 900MHz, i swear it feels like a whole new device. You will need to mount your /flash partition as rw though (mount -o remount,rw /flash), because it's set as read-only normally.