I guess you could remove the featured module on the left (lots of whitespace beneath it once you scroll down) and make everything a little smoother horizontally, try moving the ratings and the last post to another cell on the far right of the middle module.
Either way, I would concentrate on making the code rock as I'm just going to hack up the template anyhow!
Can you easily use GD to shrink the photos down to make something of a list like Ebay?