Hopefully, it won't be too painful blondie - one of the reasons I value feedback is to make sure people are comfortable with any changes and they make sense. I want to try and optimize the UI for the common tasks people do so it isn't as clunky to fund the topics you're involved in for instance (that isn't done yet, don't go looking for it !).
I'm going to try and re-use design elements throughout so once you learn the main concepts of the interface they can be re-applied.