I really like the header photograph and color scheme in your layout A simple suggestion I have is to center your affiliates buttons on the bottom of your page.
very nice header indeed. everything's all right except that I really don't like those big grey squares next to each category. Try to smaller them a bit.
cool header... but i suppose you need to have a logo on it... or somewhere at the site... also yes the Grey boxes does look weird.. also the pink bands... navigation is cool... no issues on that.. over all a great work...