Maybe it is psychological but I almost never look at the stickies because they are a different colour and not what I consider the meat of the forum. Some of the threads certainly have merit and are useful. A lot of time noobies bump up old posts and they live again for a few days, weeks or months in the first few pages then when people have had their say they drift back...then someone finds it again and bumps it up.

I like the idea of one sticky of stickies. Have all the information there and as a resource but don't clutter up the front page where the majority of people scroll right past the coloured stickies to the first regular post halfway down the page.