The key to a successful community is for the Administrator to have time to design a look just for their forum, and maintain the forum.

I suggest that your designer somehow finds the time, because a new style can make all the difference.

Oh no doubt we will get a new one. This is just one to use while he's designing it. I just didn't want the boards to use the default style. :p

with 5 min of some simple template mods you could ahve had a close design to what your the rest of your site looks like, the popups are uber annoying

It doesn't take long to just make up a simple style. But that is your choice.