The site may look thin on big displays, but we also have to think of those on 1024 and when you fully use the 1280px, lines become too long, text too hard to read.
We couldn't scale the forums since that wouldn't have worked with the header.
Plus, the vBulltin templates are a pain in the ass from teh deepest depths of hell. I'm happy I could come up with this half-decent solution.