Thanks a ton for the feedback... It can be very hard to hear feedback that requires me to really go back to the drawing board and recreating the site but I am going to take it into consideration with my clients. Anyways, I do have a question, I probably know the answer to this one but is it a problem that the side links (the blue gradient) do not line up with the top navigation bar?

My other concern right now is that the logo and left side bar are using Helvetica Neue, while the top Nav texts are using Impact, and you can't see here but the actual site text is Verdana. I've heard 3 is the maximum amount of different fonts one should use for a site, is three pushing it or acceptable, especially since Helvetica and Verdana are quite similar?