Bottom line is that I have to agree with Melanie and Pizzaz, lots of people are starting to complain. Hare's a big management case study for the admins - why change the color of cola religiously consumed by 176,000 members? Dialyn, do you like eating puke-pink or gangarene-green noodles? Stylish aren't they? Whbos, have you ever attended a professional web-design course? You haven't have you? Experts like Laura Lemay constantly stress that people have limited attention spans, humans aren't going to explore each item on each pull down menus. Bottom line - experts shun pulldowns unless absolutely necessary. Humans scan for points of interest - and personally I'd rather not call the present design 'cleaner' Leather-Guy, please define 'useable', Renderosity could turn everything white and set all text at #f0f0f0 and the site would still be errr... 'useable'?