Here’s what’s new (compared to D Scribe 1.x)
• Built-in Google Search
• Built-in Rapidsearch
• Sliding jQuery drop-down navigation
• Drop down navigation can now extend below the banner window
• Mediabox has been upgraded to Mediabox Advanced
• Mediabox is now activated by snippet (less javascript conflicts)
• Slideshow is WAY easier to setup, and now locally hosted!
• Slideshow delay and fade time is adjustable in the style options
• Slideshow is now Extra Content 1
• Badge content is now Extra Content 2
• Banner content is now Extra Content 3
• Now Mootools 1.2 compatible, for Accordion, RapidCart2, etc..
• Banner count is now 25
• Navigation breaks now automatically render
• Elegant breaks now correctly render in IE
• “Title Blurb” is now the Slogan output
• All theme images have been compressed for smaller file sizes
• No need to align the page glow
• Banners are now RW Muiltool compatible
• Built-in list formatting has been fixed
• IE6 now renders background textures
• 8 Custom Styles are now built-in
• New tutorial site featuring many new modifications.

And here’s some options that have been removed:

• Logo Positioning
• Title Font (Now controlled by Header Font)
• Title Kerning (Now covered in Tutorials)
• Page Glow Alignment
• Slogan Text Alignment
• Content Padding (Now covered in Tutorials)
• Banner Height
• “You Are Here” - Breadcrumb text

There are many different reasons why some style options were removed, but in every case it was to ultimatly improve the overall user exprience.