1. Comments are working again. Thanks to everyone who told me about the problem -- I don't know what it was, but my technical consultant (Spousal Unit) turned off the spam firewall and things look fine.

2. Help me, lazyweb! I can enter html tables just fine, unless there's an image upstream -- then MT inserts a dozen or more <br> tags above the table! I've tried <br clear=all> and every kind of spacing between the table and the character right before it. No amount of text between the table and the image seems to have any effect. My stylesheet is here and you can view source to see the main index, but I can't see any obvious cause of the weirdness.