McBeev,
First, thanks for getting the forums straightened out. Glad to see that it apparently wasn't just me. I was afraid I was just too stupid to work the thing
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How about being able to break the community down into smaller groups? Perhaps being able to join a group so that when you log in you can quickly check on the other members in your imediate group as well as being able to browse through the community as a whole. Or, being able to add a handful of "friends" so that you can easily check on a few key profiles.
Maybe if you went the group route there could be a totals by group page that listed the totals and averages of the groups.