Oh yeah, I hate the fillers too, haha.^_^ Whenever fillers came, I stopped watching, lol, at least until the regular episodes came back. At times it got pretty crazy when there was almost a whole season of fillers.
Oh I see, I'm guessing you watched it in English? It's still going on in Japan, so my brother gets it from online and we watch it on our TV at home. I used to hate Naruto when I watched it in English, but when I watched it in Japanese, I was converted, lol. :3