I'm embarrassed by a lot of comments here. I thought people on this forum would know better. It's like I'm watching a car, with smoke and flames pouring out from under the hood, pull over to the side of the road and people running up and checking if maybe it needs new tires.

You could probably rewrite the front end in applescript and you'd see little difference, and if you did just throw more servers at it. The problem is probably that theres a DB at the heart of all the message crazyness, you can't do that and expect to scale.