Is there anyway I can set the Orange coloured writing as a default?
Ah, orange text on a black background - that takes me back

The forums are getting better by the minute I have faith in the gamesas devs, they'll fix this mess.

Yep.
When they're done with adjustments there will still be things some people don't like (speaking personally I'd like the bar at the top to loose its semi-transparency). Right now the forums are sort of in Beta - and at least they're up so we can access them and discuss them rather than keeping them down for a week while they do all of this without member input.

Forum stars aren't a life achievement. Really not a big deal, and should be easily ignorable.
If they're going to have stars they might as well mean something, and at the moment there are so many stars they basically become a wash pretty quickly.
Of course I still favor ranks and raw post counts to stars but then both my rank and post count are pretty spectacular

The personal photo is glitched I think , I can't upload a single picture. The picture is under all requirements but still doesn't work.
But one improvement is editing posts is much faster !
It isn't glitched, it just isn't enabled for normal members. I'm sure that's intentional.
#1 cool thing in this update. I now approve of this update.
Crap.
Well the moderators have successfully petitions to have that stupid smilie removed in the past, we can do it again.