Really I think you are asking for our advice on something you are already good at - giving us attractive front page tool, and I fully agree with your statement about emphasizing function over design. At the same time, I agree with the consensus here - make the base functions and modules work first. After all this time, the registration system still has major flaws- the most mission critical part of the application, and basic database functions like search still don't work nearly as well as they see more did in 6.1.