Right, well...yesterday redmenace happened to message me about recontinuing the VPs. I've got a little extra time due to Thanksgiving, so I leafed through HLP a bit more in-depth than occassionally skimming over the thread titles when bored. I happened upon Lightspeed's shinemaps thread, and was impressed. I continued on to the Modding forum, saw the new Cain, Aten, and Hecate, and was even more impressed.
I'd told redmenace that I wouldn't come back and do VPs, but since it's the holiday season, and there are so many nice improvements around I figure I don't mind making a new VP set...if only to try them out myself.

Instead of trying to hunt down all the new improvements myself, I'm going to request that people post improvements in this thread, with the form specified below. Any posts without improvements will be deleted (to keep the thread tidy), though if you do post an improvement in your post you may chat about whatever.
So, the form:
Name (Author) -
http://www.linkgoeshere.comLook at all the pretty descriptive text. Maybe some notes about minor bugs and such.
InstallationAny special install instructions beyond copying files to the appropriate locations. If you need something else installed for whatever-it-is to work right, this is where it goes. Also if you have to fix a cup of coffee or sacrifice a lamb to a local diety for it to work.
The final VPs will be released the Monday after the first weekend of December (the 6th); submissions will definitely be accepted until December 4th. After that, I'll try to get things in until the VP release, but I make no guarantees.
Note to mods - I realize this is technically the wrong forum for a thread like this, but it's the only one that I have the power to keep the thread clean.