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Did you give up already? Still don't see much for changes to your theme. Just want to say a custom theme might be a little overwhelming when your just starting up. Might want to find a simple theme an custom text logo to get started with. New traffic isn't going to come cause you have a nice theme there gonna come for the content so focus on that.
On looking for staff I think you can handle it on your own till you can see a few members that are most active an helpful then ask them if there interested.
Finding content without ripping is probably the hardest part I've seen, not sure how to get that. What I did to get my forums started is find rss feeds an lot's of them. Organize them an have them sorted for different forums. If the rss feed is available then it must be ok to use them. This will get posts on your board an I'm hoping looks better than all those 0 0 never's.
I would have tried to help with a logo for you, but wasn't sure if you'd stick with a dark theme.