Ninja, first and foremost, thank you for LHF!
One thing you should definitely try to include in an update would be the bumping of messages, whereby if anyone was to reply to an old message (even if it is 2 or 3 pages down), the reply together with the rest of the thread from the original post itself would appear at the top of the first page.
This way, we can keep interesting threads (like this one) alive, and not lose all the good input to time.