Heres my take

-Old hot topic form in the middle of the page.

-Apply the new color scheme, fonts, other new aesthetic features etc

-Bring back the TABs on top of the Hot Topics, ie |Sales |Gaming|Sony|Microsoft|Hot Topics|...NO need to color code like the old site..eg red for Sony, green for MS

-A very tiny/small change that could improve usability tremendously

i agree, im lost here, a little familiarity would be good, and the green white does make it look lika an XBOx 360 site

1. Give some indication of the forum that each thread belongs to (if not color coding, then with text or a tag).

2. List the number of total posts/new posts for each thread.

3. Tabs to filter by forum.

4. View the full thread title on mouseover.