I wrote a plugin for Steve this morning that took less than 5 minutes to write and check. It was 3 lines of core code and a few lines to load the action. Most of this was cut and paste.
The plugin forces comments open every time a post is published. Steve’s system somehow has lost the ability to open comments.
He will be giving me access to the site and I will do a total upload of a fresh wordpress install to see if that helps. Steve as you remember was badly hacked.
He is also having trouble with image uploads. I will work on that also.
I doubt if anyone else needs such a brute force effort to open a post to comments, but if you want it, I’ve got it.