After working on the site for a week or three, I've finally gotten all the elements in place to move the site on to the new design. I'm happy for the upgraded options and I'm actually looking forward seeing how this all works out.
I've had to make a couple of CSS updates to making things work and I still think the thing I had to do to get the RSS link icons work on the news site were kind of ridiculous.
I struggled a bit on the new interface, and there are some limitations on some of the things that I find a bit frustrating (what if I want to have an h4 tag?). Overall it's been a generally positive experience, and I'll probably go into it more when I get to that point.
Thanks to Keith (CSS, design suggestions, and logo design) and Chris (design suggestions) for there help in getting this up and running.
Anyways, welcome to the updated site.