I'd like to make a suggestion regarding skill changes. That is to drop initiative, I think people feel the need to post in a certain order when you use it, instead of replying when they have the time and it slows things down. As long as everyone does something before you move on to the next go round it shouldn't significantly alter anything.
He's DMing my L4W game, but he posted just the other day after a several day absence to say he's been extremely busy and that he would probably have to end the game or pass it on to another person to run.
Sorry about my absence, we moved out of our apartment on saturday and into our house. Internet just got hooked up. I'm catching everything up now and later tonight.