I am a preterist and an optimistic amill. I am optimistic about what God will do through God's people in the years, decades and centuries to come. Being a Reformed Christian I believe in the three uses of the law (as do many preterists - there are several articles on the topic at http://www.preteristarchive.com/) Preterists, both partial and full, make up many in the ranks of Christian Reconstructionists and the like. I do not align myself with every particular of Christian Reconstructionism and Theonomy, largely because I am a mainline Presbyterian, believe in the egalitarianism of Gal. 3:28, etc. I am an evangelical more of the Evangelicals for Social Action school than that of Chalcedon.
I have no particular opinion about James Jordan.
North did a great deal to discredit himself and his message with his Y2K hysteria, yes. It would be unfair, though, to ignore his scholarship (witness his almost 1000 page 'Crossed Fingers: How Liberals Captured the PCUSA'). Further, the larger truths of his postmill. eschatology remains intact.In this (his Y2K thing) though, he was not positing an eschatological apocalypse, but a technological fiasco. But, in retrospect, I do think he overdid it (at least from what I heard regarding some of his appearances on Art Bell, etc.).