I think I may have visited your forum once before, used to have a much darker theme? Anyways, I was very happy to see the current color scheme. I enjoy your enthusiasm and am very glad to see the effort your put forth come to life.
However, I noticed a few things that I would suggest altering. The banner is perfect yet at the very bottom it has been cut off, allowing the globe and the reflection to lose their effect. Secondly, I am not a fan of the navigation containing images as well as the content you have just above that regarding your radio. Warez-BB does a great job incorporating their radio into their theme (top right) see if you can create something like that? The images below are quite cool but they just don't seem to fit, I would just go ahead and add the contents to the navigation. If the navigation becomes over loaded I would then suggest adding a Features List (such as the one at USAWarez.org). I think the chatbox is a great modification, but think about hiding it from guests, then your site will appear much more condensed and encourage browsing.
Great job, feel free to PM me if you have any questions, and I am very glad you are making improvements.