I'm giving another free hosting service a shot before I give up and pay for space. My page now lives at
http://www.freespeech.org/cydewaze/
It seems fast (faster than onslow) and there are no ads. You still have to have a link back to their main page (like dencity) but you can make it however you want it and don't have to use their thingy.
I transferred my pages this morning. FTP works like a charm, and you are told how much space is used/remaining after every transfer. Oh, and you get 25MB.
Hopefully it'll work out.
-Paul