Speed - Custom Home screens slow

Hi,

I am system administrator in a company that runs Maximo 6.2.5 on weblogic 8.1 (4 servers in cluster) with an Oracle rac database.
I am not a maximo expert but neverteless currently investigating complaints about slowness.
I've upped the logging levels in our test env. and the first thing I've noticed is the excessive amount of database queries.
One users home screen does about 1300 "select * from ......." queries. It looks like 4-5 per line of data displayed on his screen.
With each querry taking about 3-10 miliseconds this screen takes between 6 and 10 seconds to load.
Since I have no frame of reference (only from the guys that did the customisations here and who say this is normal maximo behaviour) I came here to ask: Is this normal?
2nd question. Anyone know of a way (or tool) to meassure load times. I've been experimenting with wget but can't get past the maximo auth screen.

A small section from the log loading one of these screen, notice the timestamps:
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29 Dec 2010 13:37:17:057 [INFO] USER = (1088) SPID = (590) app (null) object (PERSONGROUPTEAM) :select * from persongroupteam where persongroup in (select persongroup from persongroup where xgrouptype ='PLANNER' and xcenter='2111') and resppartygroup='1088'
29 Dec 2010 13:37:17:060 [INFO] USER = (1088) SPID = (590) app (null) object (PERSONGROUPTEAM) :select * from persongroupteam where persongroup in (select persongroup from persongroup where xgrouptype ='GKI' and xcenter='2111') and resppartygroup='1088'
29 Dec 2010 13:37:17:063 [INFO] USER = (1088) SPID = (590) app (null) object (PERSONGROUPTEAM) :select * from persongroupteam where persongroup in (select persongroup from persongroup where xgrouptype ='CHEF' and xcenter='2111') and resppartygroup='1088'
29 Dec 2010 13:37:17:066 [INFO] USER = (1088) SPID = (590) app (null) object (GROUPUSER) :select * from groupuser where groupname='URNADM' and userid='1088'
29 Dec 2010 13:37:17:075 [INFO] USER = (1088) SPID = (590) app (null) object (PERSONGROUPTEAM) :select * from persongroupteam where persongroup in (select persongroup from persongroup where xgrouptype ='PLANNER' and xcenter='2111') and resppartygroup='1088'
29 Dec 2010 13:37:17:077 [INFO] USER = (1088) SPID = (590) app (null) object (PERSONGROUPTEAM) :select * from persongroupteam where persongroup in (select persongroup from persongroup where xgrouptype ='GKI' and xcenter='2111') and resppartygroup='1088'
29 Dec 2010 13:37:17:080 [INFO] USER = (1088) SPID = (590) app (null) object (PERSONGROUPTEAM) :select * from persongroupteam where persongroup in (select persongroup from persongroup where xgrouptype ='CHEF' and xcenter='2111') and resppartygroup='1088'
29 Dec 2010 13:37:17:084 [INFO] USER = (1088) SPID = (590) app (null) object (GROUPUSER) :select * from groupuser where groupname='URNADM' and userid='1088'

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