Is anyone else experiencing this problem? When i go to a video the video player will disappear once the page is fully loaded, stopping the video. The video begins playing immediately after loading the page then when the images for the related videos load the player disappears and all I see is the white youtube background. I am using Chrome.

I am using Firefox and I am not experiencing this problem.

Here is what it looks like.

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o212/scottypma/Untitled-2.png

Also this just started today...

Not a problem here with Firefox. Try opting out of the html5 trial and see if that fixes it, I remember that causing me problems before.
http://www.youtube.com/html5

I am not in the trial...

Also all of the videos on the main page take forever for the images to pop up.

I'll try it in another browser to see if that is the problem.

Tried it in IE and the videos play just fine, could it be an add on I have installed for Chrome?

Chrome uses a different flash plugin than other browsers, so any flash issue would likely be isolated to Chrome. Generally disabling / uninstalling add-ons / extensions is one of the first things I would try when trying to trouble shoot a browser problem.