I think you hit the nail on the head several times. There are lot of people here who while would never IMM would be able to help CF. Love all your ideas and hope the Imms are listening. Also just some random idea:

1. Fan art section on the webpage, the really good ones to be used in as actual art on the site. For example someone draws an amazing fire giant so that gets added to the fire giant description page. The site always seemed kind of sterile to me, and I think more fan involvement with the site then just the forums would interest people more.

2. CF Icon for things like Mudconnector, Zmud, all the vote sites. I brought this up once before and forgot the reasoning why not. However I think people are much more likely to try a mud that has a cool icon next to it's name then doesn't. Makes us looks less legitamate. Also I'm not sure how much the cost is to get us as a default mud for Zmud but I think that would be huge.

3. Your flash client just for CF is a brillant idea. Of course this would require tons of work, but I think if it's done right and put on all these flash sites could bring in tons of new players on it's own.

4. Advertising - Now I have no idea at all what the budget is but I think sites like Penny Arcade would be a great place to draw interest. Especially if you could get the flash client built first.