Would it be possible to show the last person who posted for each topic in the date area? I've seen this on other sites and it's a quick way of knowing whether anyone has responded or added to the post. I find dates and times don't really help all that much.

That's certainly a handy feature, and I agree that it would be nice to have it here. However, the forum members certainly have no control over such things, and neither do the Webmasters; that's a feature that isn't provided by the software that runs the Ironworks Web fora. If you want to get your request somewhere meaningful, go to the Infopop Web site; they're the people who make the UltimateBB software:
http://www.infopop.com/aboutus/contact.html

FWIW, the "who posted last" info *is* available on a per-forum (not per-thread) basis at the Ironworks top-level forum page at
http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/cg...cgi?category=1