I also miss that feature as it was the quickest way to have an overview of caches along a short tour planned or comming by surprise. Let me say it with the words I found from someone else in that topic:
"I just want to add my voice to the list of Premium Members who miss the Google Earth PlugIn. Groundspeak, please listen to your members!!"
If the system load is really too high running the Google Earth kml you might check with www.geocaching.de an opencaching.de. They made it even more accurate whereas I admit that they migth not have "200" queries at ones....
For the future: Before disabling any feature there should be a published alternative running for a while.
Regards, hwi, Germany
