Hey MadridMan!
Are you still reading this thread? I like the improvements on the site, but I've got a suggestion about another "feature" that would fit this site really well. Have you heard of a "wiki"? It's a website (or a section of a website) where anyone can edit any of the pages. It's really useful for sites where there's a lot of faqs being passed around.
Here\'s a link to the WikiPedia as an example - it's a website that's using the wiki concept to build an online encyclopedia. Since the MadridMan site is used for lots of factual information (like "What's the weather in Madrid like in August?") this would be a great tool to provide to the dedicated community you've built here. It's self-maintained by the people who use it. (Anyone who has details can add new pages or update ones that are already created adding content. If some jerk comes in and deletes something or writes something bad, another person will come along right behind and fix the page up again quickly.)
You spend a lot of time going through and moving discussion topics around and asking people to search the archives for discussions about topics that have been talked to death before. It seems that it would be better to provide a self-building FAQ that would allow the discussions to be more like discussions ("What do you think about the ETA?") and the FAQs to be more concise, organized and accessible ("How to get married in Spain").
Just a thought... I can point out some open-source Perl code on the web that you could try out... no databases to set up and no maintenence. You just install it and go.
-Russ