After reading through a lot of feed back, I've come to this:
1. I think having the original poster in the title was beneficial.
2. I don't like having to scroll back up to the top of the page to get out of the thread. Either a back to top button or navigation prompts at the end of the thread would be helpfull.
3. I'm not sure what the bars are for under the avatar. Apparently it represents a persons posting ability.
Other than that it will take some time learning the new layout. I don't get to spend to much time on a computer (mostly at work) so this will be a longer learning curve for me. I think over-all it is livable and will improve as changes are made and I learn more about it. I hope this will help, but I'm sure you've heard most of this already.
Thanks
-Stephen(really miss my cowboy smilie)