I use wordpress and love it - definitely recommend it.

I'm actually in the process of redesigning my members homepage (I run 4 sites) and I'm attempting it using wordpress and then using rss feeds on each site.

Plan is that I will have 1 members update area (my definition of a members homepage is somewhere that I can comment on new content and updates on a 3 times a week basis). I'll post more details of this in its own threat when I turn it on.

Good luck mate.