Rather than having shitty servers, i'm speculating that the lag on mtgox is intentional and artificially added to prevent panic selling.  The more orders that are placed, the slower the system becomes and everything get "dampened".

Prove me wrong.

When coins are stolen, is it not possible to track them through the network?  If so, is there a mechanism to create a blacklist?

Is fractional reserve banking (i.e. lending based on a fractional reserve) incompatible with BTC?