Just received it, thanks!!! hehe
You deserve it, I always wanted a dedicated server but they were just too expensive. Now with 8GB RAM I'm pretty sure I can run litecoind alonside bitcoind 
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As far as I know there are no forks, the p2pools I have tested so far have the simple frontend a little bit modified and thats all. I think with a little bit of time the frontend can be improved, first of all the memory problem should be a priority, then I would suggest some kind of stats or even a login so the people can see the stats of their minner, one of the problems of a p2pool node is that they dont give away hashrates or any kind of information, i have been surfing the logs of p2pool for a while and I dont think it will be difficult to have a couple of scripts ready to get some information.
Im not really and expert in php so I can't be of much help over there but if you need it I can work with you on the scripts, programming is one of my hobbies so I quite do it for fun hehe
Well that does it, I have to fork it now. I'll post a thread and link the fork/let you know when I get around to it. Right now I'm updating MacMiner, cursing VMWare for being problematic to force me to actually restart my computer if I want to get it working stably, and setting up the new server, but once I hit a few milestones i'll start the clone. I do have a decent knowledge of php but I'm not expert.Im not really and expert in php so I can't be of much help over there but if you need it I can work with you on the scripts, programming is one of my hobbies so I quite do it for fun hehe
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Also, once the pool is ready I will recommend some promotion and actually to think about something different to offer so people choose your pool over the other ones, remenber that right now p2pool is not the best option for people with low hashrates like me (still saving bitcoins to try to get my hands in an asic hehe) one idea could be to have a small percent of the overall winning of the pool per week put on a wallet and once a week or after reaching an specific amount do a lottery or something like that, between the people who used the pool, it could be appealing and shouldn't be difficult to set up.
That's an excellent idea and it would be really easy to do
I just need to stop mining to the default address 
I had read that p2pool was handing out low difficulty shares to workers and got optimistic but I'm not sure exactly how it works out for small miners, there's someone with a really old mac getting 1/2MH on the pool and it shows about 1 block solved an hour, but doesn't yet indicate what kind of payout they'll get from that. (I am checking up that people are receiving their payouts properly, this one is new so I need to wait for a block to be solved - hopefully it'll be what 1/2MH should get but I haven't looked in to the payout method thoroughly)I shall guarantee you a prize equal to the first prize given out in the lottery (which hopefully will only be about a week from now, if the next update of MacMiner gets more people using the pool)