Publishing Site template problems

Has anyone come across this. Can you offer some insight.

A site collection administrator has created a new site using the Publishing site template.

Not long after the site is created, all sites under that web application slows down. At first all users noticed the problem. However, after a while it only affects other site collection administrators and farm administrators. Other users don't see a problem. We deleted the site and the issue went away.

After some testing we found that she could create the site with the blank site template and this didn't cause problems.

Another post was very helpful. It suggested that there was a problem with the draft version of the default.aspx. But why would it work with the blank site template?

Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can troubleshoot this.

The logs don't show very much. The only thing that led us to the problem was that the site kept showing up in the logs when i turned on verbose logging. I was going to try fiddler but I haven't been very successful using this in the past. Does anyone else have any ideas.

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