The main SR site and the Forums here were almost unusable for me unless it was 3am. If anyone wants to go to the trouble, after installing version 0.2.3.24-rc of the "tor" program they both work the first try every time. I downloaded the source for 0.2.3.24-rc from the torproject.org site, compiled it and installed it, then deleted the version of "tor" in the browser-bundle's directory and linked the newer one I just installed to the same location (so that when the tor browser starts, it executes the updated one instead of the broken 0.2.2.39 it came with).Warning: I had to go d/l, compile, and install one of the required libraries & fuck with it a bit to compile tor v0.2.3.24-rc, so if you've never compiled and installed a program from source in Linux, you probably want to just wait for them to update the browser bundle. Thought it would be helpful for some people that are fed up with SR not working though.