Sometimes you have to ignore all the wrappings and ribbon and just get on with it, especially after changing your template, like Just Muttering By Myself has done:
"I upgraded my template. I’m not happy with this but at least I’m not feeling as utterly stupid as I did over the weekend. I’m almost ready to think about writing about something interesting instead of about blogging."
Now if she’ll just get Haloscan comments so I can add my two cents. I never could deal with Blogger comments. For some reason Blogger-Google won’t let me register. Annoying.
UPDATE With a little inspiration from Just Muttering By Myself, I finally got registered at Blogger-Google, so I can use their comments now. Created a TexasScribblerBackup there, to facilitate the comments usage elsewhere, but don’t expect to be using it. Unless MT craters.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
I’d love to use Haloscan – but it swallows all my existing comments when I try to switch to them. I don’t want to lose them all unless I (you?) (someone?) can devise a way to save them – or (gasp) copy them all.
Have you tried to register at blogger for a site that’s on the new blogger (ugh)? Maybe it’ll work now? One must live in hope for all kinds of things. I’ve even figured out how to modify the template, finally. VERY annoying but I am still trainable, evidently.
Thanks for your (more or less) encouragement.
Ah, well, you’re a bit braver than me. I heard movable type was easy. Ha. Maybe for the intelligent. But not for the rest of us. I’m still trying to figure out how to get Google to link to a specific page instead of making searchers start at the main page for what they want. But I’ll try registering for a blogger site.
Not as if your comments work perfectly either, so there. On the front page, it shows 0 comments and yet mine does display. Hmmm….
You don’t need to register for a site just to leave comments; you can be a registered user without a blog – or at least you used to be able to do that.
Have you tried right-clicking at a url and choosing “copy shortcut” when you want to link to a specific page? That works sometimes….
That wouldn’t surprise me, to find my comments are faulty. I’ll try your suggestion, thanks.