The woeful saga of my MT 3.2 upgrade continues. Like child who can't stop touching a hot stove, I assumed that the template refresh feature of 3.2 would actually work as advertised. Instead, it wound up destroying my customized comment templates and replaced them with newer versions. This shouldn't have happened because MT installs a plugin that's supposed to back up all of your custom templates before updating them. Fortunately, it at least worked partially, and backed up my main index, style sheet, and archive templates, otherwise you'd be looking at a very different version of the main page. It's going to take me a while to figure out how to restore the lost templates. Comments work, but the formatting is severely out of whack.

On the plus side, I was able to generate both an RSS 2.0 and an Atom feed, and added links to them at the right-hand bottom corner of the page, but quite frankly, I can't see any significant difference in the formatted output since they still don't appear to handle the 'float' style correctly.

I'm sure I'll get it all sorted out eventually, but in the meantime, I'm going to celebrate my day off by doing some thrifting.

UPDATE: comments look normal and work correctly now. I also made some cosmetic tweaks to the archive formatting. To everyone who suggested I switch to WordPress, my server lacks MySQL, so unless I can talk the sysadmin into installing it, I won't be changing over.