I've been put off them for the moment, though I could be having another soon but I'm in 2 minds about it.

wow just deleted some people i didnt know... 303 friends to 112 O.o

My friend number keeps dropping by one....then goes back up by one.

WTF

You obviously have one very persistent friend.

No, you have one friend who is persistence-resteicted.

I'm not accepting/deleting anyone.

It's doing it itself, unless someone keeps constantly de-activating their account.

Um...

Anybody else getting anoyed by that banner on the top that asks if you would like to make Facebook your homepage? I click the X to get rid of it but it still comes back.

Yes.... But FB can do anything by now to rape their users in the ass, and they still come back for more.

I suggest using Adblock with the element blocker. You can disable any element on the page from ever reappearing. I used it when that horrible gray bar in youtube first arrived. Luckily its less annoying now, so I re-enabled it.

I also blocked the stupid "leave a comment" speech bubble on YT that blocks me from viewing the title for several seconds.

NoScript for Firefox is really good, too. As the name suggests, it stops scripts from running unless you tell them to.