I didn't notice any gross timing issues in the 720p version.

The episode wasn't that bad even if not that good either. Not that much happened, and they even chose the cheap way out of the Naruto Itachi meeting by revealing nothing at all of Itachi's message. The latter half of the episode was somewhat strange because I kept expecting Tsunade to say or hear something profound with that look of hers. I guess she was just drunk, after all...

At least we learned something of Naruto's parents, but after all this time it didn't have much of an impact anymore.

I'm not the greatest fan of flashbacks so I'll have to see the next episode first to judge how good the prospects of the following weeks are. I hope they aren't totally meaningless flashbacks, though.