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...)

- a text at the top or bottom of most of the blocks/pages to give some explanation/incitation to the user will be welcome

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 ;-)