A nice optimistic view! Great to see...

The answer to your question regarding the styling (which in the opinion of others is not bad) can be found elsewhere on the forum. There has been a vast amount of discussion on it - and I've repeated myself a good ten times which I'm not doing again.

Regarding the thread being stickied, it's probably come off when a moderator has moved a post in from one (normal) thread to this thread.