After spending a great deal of time last night attempting to reduce the number of queries our Voidwars ticker (the thing that makes everything go =) ) used we have successfully reduced it from 900 down to a measly 131.
As pointed out by Xiven the method we used to achieve this dramatic drop wasn't exactly ideal, but since the queries are generated we can always not look at them =).
NOTE: I came up with the idea and NOT GwieF (our usual MySQL expert) =)