well, being that they currently run sats to the most WPT/WSOPC events than any major site (5), and the big event entry sats are NOT ever turbo/rebuy, i switched my few coins over at stars to tilt. bye-bye, rebuy roulette.
as for the other stuff, i switched the avatars off right away, changed the table background to the beach scene, and the deck to the neutral red, and thus have no visual problems/distractions whatsoever. actually, i like that layout a lot. also like the fact that i only need to hover over the other players in order to read their notes, which saves me clicks and time.
the recent few server lags/outages were apparently due to the fact that theyre rolling out the mac version of their software. ok, agreed that shouldnt be an excuse, but...its what it is. theyre not stars in that respect, noone is, and theyre having their own growing pains too...still, not nearly enough to run me out and subject me again to the turbo/rebuy roulette bonanza at the other place(s).