1. Obviously if you don't have the time or resources to rebuild right now you shouldn't. I don't mind a little downtime if it means you have some leeway for happiness!
2. I think I am only using these features right now:
-Webserver
-FTP
-MySQL
-PHP
If I'm using anything else I don't know about it!
What is the statistics thing? I don't see my username on there so now I'm curious how I get that...
3. I am not familiar with SCP, but if I can use my FTP client to do it that would be fine by me. Or really just as long as someone can recommend something to use and it doesn't confuse me! I don't mind using web-interfaces too much as long as they aren't missing anything important.
4. Other than the statistics that I didn't know existed until now, I can't think of anything...
5. I don't know enough about this sort of thing to even notice. ^__^
6. I'm not really sure how to generate revenue. Other than what you mentioned where users could pay to remove the newsbox. I'm not really sure how big a demand there would be for that though, it's not the most restrictive thing in the world...
7. I wish I had as much time to read the applications as I used to...

I don't think you should try to force it though, because if people really don't have an interest in it they probably won't take it seriously. It might speed things up if there were some kind of form or something, because a lot of people seem to read the rules, then still miss some things, then people who are reading the applications say, you need this and this and this, which leads to the person correcting it and continuing the application process, when they could just have all this done to begin with? So people could spend more time considering a completed application than just quoting the rules of the process.