I agree that splitting up parts of the forum would be a good idea.
I only started learning Japanese 2 weeks ago and actually haven't had time to continue since the first few days. But after this week i will be continuing properly.
To be honest i never understood the point of learning Romaji because it doesn't really help with anything.
I can see how it would have some uses under certain circumstances but even as a complete beginner i want to learn using true Japanese characters. I mean if i learn to speak the sound of each symbol then it's going to make learning it a lot faster.
Sashimister helped me out a lot in my thread which got me started quite well...and as much as i haven't studied it at all since, i still remember everything i learnt in that 1-2 days. (so that's good).
Luckily i also have about 5-6 native Japanese people who i speak to via e-mail from japan-guide and have got on very friendly terms with 2 of them.
But it's be a shame if all the native speakers of this site stopped helping people...so i deff agree with ideas to change things a little and segregate certain parts with regards to language learning.
よろしくおねがいいたします - Apologies if that's not exactly relevant. I may have got it wrong...