Peter,
No problem. I didn't take what you said as bad. Frankly, I'm the positive type of guy who always looks at criticism as constructive, so no worries there. We do realize there are some short-comings to our current support solution, but don't plan to overhaul it with a ticket based system. Those just aren't the style we like. We are going to be agressive in making the forums much simpler when we finally get our redesign done, hopefully by the end of February. If, at that time, you have any problems or more feedback, we'd love it just as much then as we appreciate it now.
As for your template override problem, glad that got you fixed up! Should you need anything else, as always, just let us know!
Best of luck to you and your site,
Alex