unfortunately, the order of title-post-meta is part of the template itself. you'd have to convince scott and andy that it's more semantically valid to have the meta near the title.
you could, however, put the meta to the left or right of the post relatively easily.
.entry-content {<br />
width: 75%;<br />
}<br />
.entry-meta {<br />
width:25%;<br />
float: left;<br />
}<br />
should get you started.