Cool to see another Jeep site here (I run
www.jeepz.com). I've lately gotten on the SEO kick, and have learned some about vbadvanced. From what I understand, google and others will start on the left side of your screen and read top down. In your case, it would see your site map (good), then your calendar (probably bad).
I'd go into the vbadvanced permissions, and hide the following from the unregistered group:
calendar
online users
birthdays
proud member of
stats.
This way, you and all your users will see these, but guest and search engines (who are probably trying to find data quickly) won't see them.
Personally, I like the two column look better than three.
The moving nav (from left to right) doesn't bother me, but on your faq page you've got the login box twice.
I'd also open up your gallery to guests. My gallery is open (read only) to guests, and so far google has indexed over 10,000 pages from my gallery (use this for a search term - site:jeepz.com photopost ). Plus, alot of cool photos would draw more guests to register
good luck
terry