Has anyone found anything to help with modest and it's incessant CPU usage and very slow responsiveness?

Mine constantly uses 100% CPU for long periods of time (a minute or more) since installing 1.2, and my battery can hardly last a few hours because of it.

I run Conky and see modest at the top of the list constantly. I have one MFE account, one IMAP account (gmail), and one POP account.

Here's a Conky screenhot showing the trend:



Any ideas? Seems like no real answers have been found yet but thought I'd add to the list