I know you probably won't like my criticism, but I'll tell you why I stopped using the TIMO bar. You have all of 4 links to fourms. The original sidebar had links to all of the hardware fourms, the Community and DC forums, the General Gaming fourm, the Buy/Sell fourm, and the menus for the rest of the fourms. While I like the little drop-down menu, it's not as conventient as a list of links.
Don't take that the wrong way. I like the sidebar. I'm just telling you so that if you want to make a later revision, you have some feedback.