Beta 9 HUD + Party possible conflict

Whenever I start the HUD I am finding that the Party client becomes increasingly unresponsive. This continues until PT3 and the Party client lock-up completely wherupon I have to use Task Manager to close PT3. Everything then works fine. I use XP and had no problems with the Beta 8 HUD.
I have also "lost" the custom HUD configuration that I was using with Beta 8.
I have also "lost" the custom HUD configuration that I was using with Beta 8.