Constant typewriter neck is bothering me

I think the fact that my widescreen monitor is only using maybe 60% of it horizontal real estate with the new design bothers me. After you adding in the right aligned navigation you end up using about 40% of my screen for actual discussion.

On the old forum layout it seemed like we had more horizontal space but I 'm not taking out a ruler to find out . . . :-D

It just doesn't seem to flow as well as it could. Is there any way we could get the navigation to be aligned above the original post or at the very least to have comments take up 100% of the available space after the navigation?