ok, screwing around with my templates some more on this sunday morn. having all kinds of problems uploading, but that's ok... i can just save them as draft postings, because i just upgraded to blogger pro(tm)! yes, for some reason i thought that pro had some sort of automatic comments feature, so i wouldn't have to keep manually creating ones in quicktopic, but i guess i was mistaken. it does have some pretty cool features, however. spellcheck, emailing of updates, file uploading, publishing in the future, saving drafts (like this one), and some other cool stuff. i figure i use it regularly enough that i can throw the $35 pyra's way.