I am still new here so I apologize in advance if I am off base. Hopefully someone will let me know.

My reaction to the website is it is way too busy. My eyes could not focus on anything because there was too much content. The whole cant see the forest because of the tree thing. I liked some of the images in the middle but the text under it lead to the clutter. There appeared to be three columns of info but I wasnt sure what was different about the columns. I had to scroll to the right to see some of the content because my eye wont let me go past 800x600 resolution. I would recommend simplifying the amount of links on the page. A rule Ive used is no more than 30 links on a page. If you notice with the emerging web 2.0 sites everything is bigger and simply. People need to be able to skim a page. I also recommend running the site through the W3C html validator and address the 700+ errors to help ensure it renders the same on different browsers. Link titles and alternative text would be good for accessibility.