Awesome, thanks for the quick response!
It seems the lag issue is corrected but now when I install a mod, the green check mark doesn't show up and if I close and reopen NMM after installing a mod, it's not installed.
Also, just because this is the first time I've actively posted here, would this be the right place to post about the the mods not installing issue or do I need to make a new post? I couldn't find another post with this issue or I would have posted there.
Thanks!! 
Edit: Now it seems that it only happens with certain mods. But it looks like it's most of the mods I'm trying to install.
And I'm getting the pop up that says the selected plugin has been manually removed and NMM must be restarted but I've only installed a few mods at this point and only have 22 plugins. I thought that popup only happened when you reached the plugin cap for the game?
Edited by Th3Dude, 15 January 2015 - 11:40 AM.