Well my thoughts are the same, about reason 1.
But what you can do is close your eye's and just except the lag for a bit. I don't really got the lag these days so it is a lot less. Maybe other people still have it.
2. Tekkit is awesome! You can do so much, you have a lot to do before you actually are on point you got everything.
3. Good, I don't like doing that myself.
Maybe a little bit less text on the minecraft thread will do the trick? People don't like to read that much. Give the big points and then if they want they can get more info at these forums.