I spent yesterday doing lots of coding... well, cleanup, at any rate. I
am back to a sort of compromise between the table-y webforum template
and the a-little-too-freeform template that's here right now, and the
queries (and thus the JSON and Perl-dump versions) are way cleaned up.
I still have to fix all the Atom and RSS versions, though. 

If you want to see it, you can replace the "forum" in the Phoenyx (not
Wirebird.com) URLs with "dev" but there are no guarantees anything will
work at any particular time. Also, it's the live database, so please to
not be posting 'TEST TEST TEST LA LA LA I'm not wearing any pants'
posts to live groups.