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Ok, there is a bit of default commenting weirdness going on at the moment, and I'm at this point only partially sure what's going on, so bear with me for a bit, and hopefully I can get things straightened out.

Basically, the new version of MT has implemented a whole new commenting system that is based around their typekey registration system -- the idea being that only humans, and not spammers, can register, and therefore comment, on our blogs.

so what's happening now, is that since very few of us (I actually am) are signed up for typekey, when we try to post comments without signing in, the comment gets sent to a waiting room where it waits for the blog author to approve it. Then it shows up on the page. To complicate things, my recent comments code on the side doesn't check for the approval info, so it shows that a comment has been made, but doesn't account for if that comment has been given the a-ok yet. Sigh.

Basically, I'm trying to figure out if this is all more trouble than it's worth. However, I can't even really do that, because right now I can't seem to config blogs to just bypass this whole comment reg. system, even though technically it's just a switch in the configuration. Sigh again.

ok, but long story short: bear with me for a bit -- but for the moment, if you see in the recent comments thing that someone has commented on a post of yours, can you pls. log in and approve it...

thanks.