[blueuniverse]

I like the individual icons for the forums, I think that looks excellent. I do think you'd benefit from changing the default icons though like lastpost and quote, just to give it a more original look. I also think the header would look a lot better if it could stretch in some way, and also if it was enclosed by another boreder coming off the forum bit. On my monitor the header only takes up about half the screen.

Other than that it is good, and although it isn't probably that original as an idea, the way you've presented it with individual icons make it different from the norm and that works well.

Good luck