We've gone ahead and updated the forum skin, it's actually more organized now.
I'm still working on customizing everything such as the header and probably going to download the Robotech type font so I can change the text of the buttons.
Also I realize the chat box has been really laggy and I actually went ahead and decided to see if there were any solutions, but it seems others are having the same problem and there's no way to fix it. :\
I apologize for that, if it gets worse we can just use the xat chat instead.