Talli - IMO this stuff is *way* too ambitious to include in your current "improve openacs.org" project.
Another way of saying it is in various threads and e-mail discussions folks have mentioned a set of easy stuff that could be done that would make the site tremendously more useful, so my thinking is "let's pick the low fruit for this first round of openacs.org-the-web-site and get it out quickly".
I'm not trying to slow down the pace of this thread - this is all exciting stuff. It's just not stuff that's going to get done in time to roll into our community's website in the next handful of weeks.
Obviously when thinking has matured and implementation has been completed we'll want it right here real quick.