Ignoring the girl scouts approach to monitoring the forum, it never works well. Forum Nazi's like FB just cause trouble, you need a degree of freedom.
I fully agree with Ray, Ropa and Mablak.
When I first saw this website I was so lost it was not funny, the backend is superb!
The frontend is not so great. It really needs to be simplified.
The more simple something is to understand the more friendly it is to new comers. Someone who is decent with CSS could quite quickly change the layout and structure of this whole site.
I'm purely talking about first impressions and graphics etc, as for the navigation and that, probably requires more detail.
Never been a fan of drop down menus, but that's just me. Basic links are always good with a symbolic icon beside it to represent what it is.