That's not a bad idea, but seems kind of redundant. I'd say have the grayscale banner be the user's top forum and the icon be the forum the user is currently viewing. How's that?

I'll second that. Now we just need better images to represent each forum.

Seems a little cluttered to me, personally ;_;

I am going to have to fully agree with this. Let's save GFF and bring back moods.

Fine by me but it'd have to pull it from a new mood emoticon list b/c you can't have ol' xbox in that tiny space.

That looks like all those Winamp skins that people make, thinking that just putting a photo of their favourite artist in the background is a good idea.

it was just an example of what I meant, I threw it together in 2 seconds with the first random image I could find. I just wanted to get my idea across so more talented photoshopers could take over