Try changing the color of those brown bars - otherwise it looks cool. You could make those brown bars a solid color, right now it is too "jazzy" for my taste - but it is just my opinion.
@guyfox: Everyone seems to have a different opinion on the brown bars, some love them - others don't.
I dont like the brown ones, but I really don`t like the blue, you can hardly read the text on them and it takes the focus totally away from the posts sections. I have a PR4 music forum, exchange links ?
The header is nice! Why not have a curve between the white and black so it doesn't just cut off like that?