First, 500 clicks is a bit of an exaggeration, its now only in almost all cases just 1 more click to reach any page than it was before. Also we are keeping the long menu as an option, but now we don't feel so bad when we keep adding features and the menu gets more an more cluttered and confusing to new users, we are trying to organize the way people think about the site so that it doesn't seem like a large jumble of pages to someone who is unfamiliar.
we are aware of the nt page bug... actually until the offseason process set off a bunch of bugs regarding things that happen only when using the new site, i can say errors on the new site are actually pretty low. There are some bugs, but they are being squashed continually.