Odd. I'm seeing that page in both FF 2.x and IE 6.x on an XP system and the left articles are 80% of the middle section, and the and right hand articles in the middle take up 20%, which I finally got them to after about 2 days of messing about.
The gap *was* there early today, when I was still working out the widths, but I saw it leave once I got the widths straightened out. I'll see if I can make it do that on my systems.
I always take suggestions, Chimerix, but no, I can't move the login box above the menus, it isn't considered good layout, and flies in the face of what the average person expects to see in a website. This site is big enough without me making it *harder* to find the hundreds of articles that populate the site (y'know, the site? That thing that the forum is just a part of? LOL). I've already pushed most of the potential fund-raising links below the fold.
However, I *have* created, just for you, a menu item that will appear when you mouse over the 'Forum' menu item up top that will take you there.