Joe,
Would it be possible to move some of the obvious 'beginner' threads to this forum from the other threads? Some of the ones that come to mind are along the lines of - where do I invest $500 (titled '$500'), another just had 'books' in it, you know what I mean. Just a suggestion since most of the old stuff is bound to get repeated. Newbies will find this forum more useful if they see their typical questions already answered in the forum- it'll keep em coming back to these forums and may even help continue those old threads.
If it's too time consuming to do it, I understand.