Nic, with this new menu there seems to be a short time-out when switching from one forum to another. It comes up with "operation timed out" and triggers a 404 very quickly if you try to go from Digital Republic to Buy/Trade/Sell or General Chat. I've tried this on 3 different PCs, one broadband, two dial-up modems and all in different locations, so it isn't me.
Also, (without wishing to find too many faults with the new menu) the transparency when using IE makes it impossible to read the menu heading - I preferred the old menu lack of transparency.