OK Steve, you are the world's best web designer.
I reckon I am one of the worst "web designers" just look at my fugly website. The last thing I want to be is a web designer - any 'web design' is done for fun not cash and I have no desire at all to build a site for anyone, ever. I just mention my thoughts from experience. Though last year I was managing a 15 person web team however they were the specialists and I relied on them for their advise.
The colors may mean action and confidence in some color guide book, though to me these don't draw me in. It could have something to do with there being 7 different reds used on the page (excessive) including E31F28, E01F27, BD1A21, CC3333, 990000 + gradient fills
Another friendly suggestion if I can, and at the risk of sounding negative, I think I mentioned it previously elsewhere, there are too many different fonts / sizes used. My teams would nickname the MPE site a "ransom note" website, however I will say, it is only verging on it ;-)
Oh, the top menu when hovering over indicates the menu opens up via a symbol yet there is no dropdown menu, I think I mentioned that before too
I hope for MPE that David will offer some site improvement suggestions instead of just commenting off mine ;-)