here is the response as quoted:

The changes made to the site are too improve the overall efficiency and navigation as well as give more options to customer in the Marketplace. The site color scheme will be having some adjustments as well. The techs are still working on some issues as these types of changes do take time to work everything out. The changes were based on customer/member feedback within our annual surveys and while we understand that once everything is complete there will still be some people that won't like all the changes but also know that the majority will be happy with them once we work through some issues and color tweaks.

and of course, when they tweak, we get the wonderful and delightful 'Fatal SQL' errors

Mike