"Funny thing is, there is no seriously strong desire to change anything in the Orthodox Church. I guess you would have to be Orthodox to know why. :)"
As I have pointed out before, part of the reason why change is so imperceptible in the Orthodox Church is that we are constantly in a state of returning to our patristic roots. Because it is a return to roots, it doesn't seem like change. Yet each time we do it, there are subtle differences that change with the circumstances in which the Orthodox Church finds itself.
What is different is that we don't approach a new situation and say, "what new thing can we invent to come up with an answer to this problem?" We rather approach the new situation with the attitude of "the reason why we are having problems is that we need to return to the patristic mind." To move forward, we look back.
Any change that happens is, as a result, organic and virtually imperceptible.
And that, in a nutshell, is the difference between the Vatican II "adaptation" to the modern world and the Orthodox adaptation to the modern world.
That is soooo right on target, Agrarian. We start with the premise that the Apostolic faith is perfect and we are not. Therefore, we deal with our imperfections by going back to the perfect faith.
Others believe that it needs constant adjustment to "fit" the modern world in order to make it "right."