It all looks really great, and like you said i know you aren't going to change it but there are certain things, for me anyway which just quite frankly i can't see or read it and it's annoying.
On a few bits the dark red is hard to see, but more so on the visitor messages box, the Bold italic and underlining well you can't see it at all unless you hover over it, not sure if you are still in the process of changing it, but a lot on the visitor message bit is hard to see, and also if a topic has more than one page it's hard to see that grey.
But otherwise i really love the new layout.. thanks! x