Thanks for the input thus far.
I did the effect on purpose, though it doesn't look so extreme on my machine. I'm on a mac running 1280x854, I'll look into toning it down a bit.
Ahhh, yeah the number of forums, I didn't really consider that as I've never helped run a forum before. I guess we were reaaaaally anal about organzing the information, wanted to get that figured out in the beginning instead of having to move threads later. I'll defiinitely discuss that with the "founding crew."
Thanks for the compliment on the color range, I was worried it would be a little "too" different.
Woo feedback.