The Great Change: Turning Cathy into a Lawyer

I finally got around to upgrading the blog software. After much gnashing of teeth and swearing at my ISP that is not too healthy these days, it finally seems upgraded. I hope. I suspect there may still be more things to correct (like, um, what happened to all my comments???), and the look and feel may change drastically if I decide to play around with the stylesheets. Hopefully I'll be able to get this all taken care of soon.

Edit 1/4: This would all go much better if MoveableType actually had something resembling comprehensible documentation to help this process along. Sadly, it doesn't.

The biggest problem that I still have is that I can't administer pre-upgrade comments. The old ones do seem to still be attached to the site, but they don't show up in the admin screens. It's not the most enormous problem as long as I can administer new ones, but I would be much more comfortable if I could get them all to show up. Unfortunately I have no idea how that can be achieved and can't find any intelligible documentation anywhere on the Six Apart website that can shed some light on the problem. If anyone reading has some thoughts on how to fix this, I'd appreciate them.

In the meantime, however, I've allowed comments to be posted again without moderation. We'll see how this works out...

Edit 1/5: Ugh... The upgrade seems to have converted (all? most? some? many?) of my hyphens to question marks! That's going to be a pain in the ass to fix...