Yes to counters, keep pics to 12 or less unless its a freesite gal that isn't submitted to tgp, DP is right, never hide keyword lists. And lastly
WHERE are your Meta's etc?! The Whole Head looks like you work for MS. Get the tags in there!!
And no we wouldn't turn that top bar in to a clickable link. Make a banner for your site and stick it in place of all the busy text at the bottom of the gal. You have to stay away from the words more, next and things like that. Tailor your page to work with the majority of tgp's or swamp yourself with multiple pages of the same thing and trying to figure out a dbase or something to even keep track of what each has on them
