If you are looking at this through IE, you will not be seeing the forum as it was intended. My advice? Go get Chrome (Google's new browser which is very nicely done) or Firefox. Chrome actually is better than Firefox. Many of the programmers and designers that work on these themes complain about IE. Some simply refuse to work it out because it gums up the works for other browsers. They're simply sick of trying to work with IE.
Chrome might be better, but I'm sticking to Firefox until Chrome proves itself stable and secure in the long run.
I agree, Google chrome looks nice but is a little unstable. so I'll be stickin' with Firefox myself, But I do like the logo..
Anyway, The new style looks great! the color is soft on the eyes and its easy to see where a post starts and ends.
And I really like the amber colored bar at the top, it helps alot.

~Mitch