Wow! Talk about FAST! I just tried out:
Energy.HERMAN.23569.Sense2.5.Dinik.Glass.Jun.01.7z
I'm not entirely sure why, but the ROM is much faster than the others I've used for some time now. My only guess is that it's using plain Sense 2.5 rather than Cookie or MaxSense. While I'm missing some cool features of those packages, this thing is fast enough for me to forget about them!