The comments problem I'd been having? The one that triggered a semi-painful blog rebuild? Turns out it was all due to a <MTCloseComments> lurking in the Category archive template.

I figure in order to keep the whole mess worthwhile, I'll just leave that in the old blog as a nice clean demarkation between where comments Go and where they Don't.

I'm so fucking awesome it hurts.

Having skimmed the plugin documentation a bit more, it looks like it keys off of the number of days displayed in the default index. The thing is, this variable is set in the main blog config, and can be freely ignored by template implementation.

Oops.