do you need the url in the logo - afterall if they're on the site looking @ th elogo they know the url
lose the lifesize image of the product, its a waste of a screen
it suffers from the same problem as the fyh/communityforums - not "different" enough to 100 other forums to become busy, which means the forum owner has to start all the threads which further makes people think its not busy.
was there really a need for yet another ipod forum ? why didn't you simply start a few discussions at the one here ?