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Does anybody know if there's a way to let PHP call up the link descriptions? I believe it would have to be inserted within or near this code, which can be placed in whichever section you want your blogroll to appear:
<?php get_links(-1, '<li>', '</li>', '', FALSE, 'name', FALSE, FALSE, -1, FALSE); ?>
I've tried a few hands-on experiments, a few Google searches, but all I get are errors.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_bookmarks

This would do that sort of thing:
wp_list_bookmarks('show_description=1&between= : ');

Thanks, Otto! This works perfectly. You can see it in action on this page.

I'll recap for others looking for help:
I'm running a plug-in called Exec-PHP, which lets you use PHP code in your posts and pages. I've inserted this code into the page called Outside: <?php wp_list_bookmarks('show_description=1&between=: '); ?>

Then, using the Blogroll tool in WordPress admin, I can add links and descriptions to whatever category I like. In my case, there are three: Friends, Heroes and Tools. This makes for a very easy to way to manage a blogroll in a way that looks like a static links oage.

Installed Exec PHP. I can't find the page called "outside" - is this a PHP file? which folder?

Keen to get my descriptions showing again. Quite annoying that it went <kapoof> upon upgrading to 2.1.

Hey akaracquel: "Outside" is just a new page I created by doing Write --> Page. You can insert the PHP code Otto42 and I mentioned on any page you like.

Hi all, I was just looking for a resolution for this issue. I am using the sidebar widgets plugin, so this may not be relevant but I managed to get descriptions showing up in my sidebar just fine.

In widgets.php I edited line 710 to read:

wp_list_bookmarks(array('title_before'=>$before_title, 'title_after'=>$after_title, 'show_description'=>$after_title));

This happily displayed the description outside of the <a> element in the
<li>.

After this I realised that the output could do with a after the link title, so I went into bookmark-template.php in wp-includes and edited line 250 to read:

'after' => '</li>', 'between' => "");

I am not sure how this would be achieved without using the sidebar widgets plugin. I suppose the sidebar.php of your theme folder would need to be edited in some way. But sure get the sidebar widgets anyway!

This is exactly what I'm looking for! But I need to take things a step furhter. Is there a way to break out each separate Blogroll category into separate pages? Right now it lists all 3 (like your example, fruitvale: Friends, Heroes and Tools) on one page. What if you wanted a separate page just listing Friends, another page just listing Heroes and a 3rd just listing Tools?

Is that doable?

wp_list_bookmarks('category_name=Friends');
wp_list_bookmarks('category_name=Heroes');
wp_list_bookmarks('category_name=Tools');

Something like that, each on its own page?

Thanks, raptor. Yeah, I'm learning as I go along here. I used category=7 instead of the category_name, but I assume I could do it that way too.

I've got what seems like a special version of this problem. Because I'm using a theme that isn't natively sidebar-enabled (here) I had to use the workaround described here. I use the dynamic_sidebar/register_sidebar calls, so I don't have a sidebar.php file to edit. (OK, not strictly true; I have one bumming around in wp-admin, but it doesn't have the terms "php_" or "description" in it, and in any event I'm leery of editing it directly.) Any ideas? I can't even figure out how/where dynamic_sidebar is called, and when I tried the obvious dumb thing of passing a 'show_description' argument with a value of 1 to register_sidebar, the site belched (that is, looked horrible and still did not print link descriptions).

To be clear, what I'm looking to accomplish is not special. I just want descriptions by the links in my blogroll.

Thanks in advance...