Hello Andrew :-)

In my humble opinion (IMHO), here are the main points you should reconsider:

- ergonomics (users often are lost while browing a Dolpin site - missing links in several pages which could allow the user to return to the profile he/she is browing, dead end )

- templates system (code that affect template is dispersed in too many files outside the templates folder)

- members pages customization could be easily improved (see my mod http://www.expertzzz.com/Downloadz/view/4454)

- see more languages files (more than a single english language file is needed - spanish, portuguese, french, chinese, russian...)

IMHO these are basic features Dolphin/Orca/Ray has to come with...

As for me I agree with you about not to focus on any time frame but about the stability of the script ;-)