Thank you all very much for the thoughful compliments. What you see before you is the culmination of three intese weeks of prep work with time barely taken for Christmas. I, for one, am glad we have all gotten to this point. There is still more to do, but the site itself is working and we can all work together to fix the little things that are wrong to make this board way better than before.
I can assure you, speaking as someone who has had a look "under the hood" of both of these boards to make the transition, what you had before was an old Yugo and what you have now is a brand new Lexus.