With luck, and as already reported at my Education Blog, the Comments Gremlin has been slain. I will add a few comments to this posting, as I did there, but basically, everything now seems to be working. It may rudely demand that you type in a new number, despite you already having typed in one very carefully, but the signs are that it has been cured of its very disagreeable habit of eating comments without leaving so much as a verbal crumb.

My apologies for the extreme delay in sorting this out.

If anyone does get any more comments eaten, please try to add another, complaining about this. If it misbehaves again, I am anxious (if not eager) to know about it.