I don't know about other platforms/browsers, but with Firefox 1.0.4 on OS X there's a huge gap between the bottom of the forum and the page footer. Rather annoying as it causes a lot of unnecessary scrolling.
I've never been a fan of fluid layouts That footer needs to be sorted though. Other than that, it does the job
If you are looking for something that "does the job" then I think you have succeeded. Personally, I am so used to using VBulletin these days that I really don't enjoy using forums that run anything else. The only problem being if you want to play, you gotta pay. I do think your setup looks better than any other PHPBB type of forums I have seen though
I agree. I would rather have vBulletin. However I also wanted something that hooked into the CMS that I am using.
Once suggestion - Change the first column's white background color to some other color. Right now there is too much contrast between first and second columns. Coolguy
I have some display problems with the "Last Page" tab. It seems to not be the same style as the other tabs. Maybe you wanted it this way? Try giving your logo to same background color as the background of the forum.