Could not repair table
so ran this query in PHPMySQL
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS wp_comments;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS wp_comments (
comment_ID bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
comment_post_ID int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
comment_author tinytext NOT NULL,
comment_author_email varchar(100) NOT NULL default '',
comment_author_url varchar(200) NOT NULL default '',
comment_author_IP varchar(100) NOT NULL default '',
comment_date datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
comment_date_gmt datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
comment_content text NOT NULL,
comment_karma int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
comment_approved varchar(20) NOT NULL default '1',
comment_agent varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
comment_type varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
comment_parent bigint(20) NOT NULL default '0',
user_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (comment_ID),
KEY comment_approved (comment_approved),
KEY comment_post_ID (comment_post_ID),
KEY comment_approved_date_gmt (comment_approved,comment_date_gmt),
KEY comment_date_gmt (comment_date_gmt)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=83 ;
Comments now work!