Thanks a bunch cheat-master30.
Yea, I was really impressed how little vb needed to be changed to make something like this possible. Other than the template edits, there were were only about 10-11 plug-ins written (or used from here) to make the whole thing happen. And half of those were duplicating existing functionality on pages where vb doesn't normally have it.
As far as your usability concern. One of the goals of the site is to organize existing content and make it simple to get to. We're trying to stay out of the way of the user as much as we can. The closest correlation I can think of would be a search engine. If search engine results took you to an intermediate page every time you wanted to read something you found on it, you'd get annoyed pretty quickly. It might be nice the first few times, but eventually you'd probably go find Google.
Thanks a ton for the feedback.