I really appreciate all the great feedback. Let me answer a few questions and comments.
I would love to use the exact same template in both the main pages, and the portfolio pages but my knowledge of flash is very minimal still. I tried to keep the feel the best I could, and I am going to be trying to optimize that soon.
I agree with the dropshadow being slightly overdone. I am going to see what I can do to update all the pages easily with a little less shadow, my display is pretty dim right now and to me it blends almost perfectly, but I have noticed on brighter displays that it is overdone a bit.
To paul, I would love to be able to include all my own photography, and I feel I could do a more personal, and customized job by doing it. At this time I don't have the resources, and professionally I would use stock or hire a photographer because of time management.
The journal has bothered me from day 1. Yes I like to have it included it gives a personal touch to the site. I am not sure how I would ever fit all my journal content into the current template. If you have any ideas be sure to let me know, because I'm kinda stumped so far on the best way to tackle it.
On the comment about some of the content being sized to small, are you talking mostly about the hand art / indesign pages? If so those are still on my previous format for the portfolio work. I have bumped up the size on the portfolio pages most recently dated, because i noticed that as well.
The flash code that is used in the portfolio pages is very simply the code built into photoshop cs2. If you automate a photo album, and select the flash template it will write all the code, resize your photos, and build everything quickly for you. I used it initially because it saves a lot of time for me. I would like to build that code into the entire site but I am unable to at this time.
I am going to take into consideration all the great comments and do some work this weekend. It's a lot to tackle on your own. So I really do appreciate the help a lot.