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@Velocio
Yeah.
When you use SSL nothing gets cached... so your browser doesn't have copies of any of the images, etc.
This is good for pages as those are not cached anyway. But it's bad for images.
So what I would do is use a mix of both. Images, script and other files that were not the page content I'd continue to serve over non-SSL so that they could be cached and things would still be zippy. And then the pages themselves would be SSL and not cached.
I'd probably give you an option in your UserCp.
1) Full SSL encryption (slower, uses more bandwidth, good for the paranoid and those whose workplace blocks access).
2) Mixed SSL encryption (faster, uses less bandwidth, good for the majority of users).