I've just restarted my blog now as a part of my home page ( http://www.conman.com.au/confessions )

It's current experiencing a few teething problems with image size and the search bar but it's looking good.

I'd really appreciate it if people could check it out and test the comments section for me on a few posts.

Comments seem to be working

make sure you install the nofollow plugin and turn it to nofollow for comment links..
this way your not feeding weight to comments

Thanks Mike but I'm not sure what that means!

In wordpress under plugins ... search for new.. and search for No-Follow

you will see it
turn it on for comments