I noticed when the site changed its layout, the video viewer in the videos section seems to stream the media, rather then progressively download it (youtube, and most other internet video players progressively download). Can I ask why? It's been impossible for me to watch any videos here since, which is a real shame.

It was explained to me that the individual videos get progressively cached as the number of views increases.  Perhaps, when the site was revamped, the previous caches were cleared.

PIF?

That doesn't really make sense. Whatever is going on, can it be changed to work like everything else, please? I wouldn't care if you just had a quicktime player, your current flash one doesn't work well.