I should study more the situation, but as said above, there's a general "mess" with a lot of things around that create a bit of confusion.
In my opinion remove the login frame from the top page and just leave the space on the upper right corner.
When logged, in the home page, always remove the frame with avatar and personal info from the top page, and place the same in the upper right corner (with avatar and other relevant info as well - more than now).
Remove the popular tags frame as default.
Place the poll section before the user list.
...and maybe I'm not used to the new site, but I'm not able to find the list of my previous post.
Hope this helps!
Ciao from Italy!
