Just as an FYI - you could do the same change in logic for the SWQL I suggested before and potentially get your page to render quicker by not going through the reporting engine. I think it would be something like this...
SELECT NodeName, IPAddress, '/Orion/images/StatusIcons/' + StatusIcon AS [_IconFor_NodeName], Nodes.CustomProperties.Cust
FROM Orion.Nodes
WHERE (Nodes.Status = 9) AND ((Nodes.CustomProperties.Cust <> 'NewCust') OR (Nodes.CustomProperties.Cust IS NULL))