“comments are closed” when they should be open!

hippievstony.com

So when I add the two lines:

$withcomments = ‘1’;
comments_template();

inside my php code in index.php, it outputs “comments are closed” for every post instead of displaying the comment fields where you type in your comments. Comments are enabled in my settings page. Here is my index.php:

<?php
get_header ();
?> 

<div class="comments-template"> 

<div id="box"> 

<?php
$qry =  "SELECT u.id, user_nicename, post_date, post_content, post_title, post_type, post_excerpt, comment_content, comment_count, comment_author, comment_approved, wp_posts.ID as post_id
         FROM wp_posts
         INNER JOIN wp_users AS u ON post_author = u.id
         LEFT JOIN wp_comments ON wp_posts.ID = comment_post_ID
         WHERE post_type='post'
         ORDER BY user_nicename ASC, post_date DESC"; 

$res = mysql_query($qry); 

if ($res) { 

    while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)) {
       $author[$row['user_nicename']][]=$row;
    } 

    foreach($author as $k => $v) {
        $orderbydate[$v[0]['post_date']][$k] = $v;
    }
    krsort($orderbydate);
    foreach ($orderbydate as $k => $v) {
        ksort($orderbydate[$k], SORT_STRING);
    }
} 

$divIds = array('one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five', 'six', 'seven');
$i = 0; 

foreach ($orderbydate as $date => $authors) {
    foreach ($authors as $author=> $posts) { 

          echo '<div id="'.$divIds[$i++].'">';
               if($author=="tony") {
                    echo '<img src="http://www.hippievstony.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/tonyname.jpg">';
               }
               elseif($author=="hippie") {
                    echo '<img src="http://www.hippievstony.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hippiename.jpg">';
               }
               elseif($author=="eriku") {
                    echo '<img src="http://www.hippievstony.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/erikuname.jpg">';
               }
               elseif($author=="ben") {
                    echo '<img src="http://www.hippievstony.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/benname.jpg">';
               }
               elseif($author=="hingyi") {
                    echo '<img src="http://www.hippievstony.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hingyiname.jpg">';
               }
               elseif($author=="chris") {
                    echo '<img src="http://www.hippievstony.com/wp-content/uploads/chrisname.jpg">';
               }
               elseif($author=="maya") {
                    echo '<img src="http://www.hippievstony.com/wp-content/uploads/mayaname.jpg">';
               }

            $lastPost = null;

                 foreach($posts as $post) {                               

                     if ($lastPost != $post['post_id']) { 

                     echo '<h2>' . $post['post_title'] . '</h2><small>' . $post['post_date'] . '</small>';
                     echo '<p>' . $post['post_content'] . '</p>';
                     echo '<p>' . $post['post_excerpt'] . '</p>';
                          $comment_counter=1;
                          while($post['comment_count']>=$comment_counter) {
                              if ($post['comment_approved']=1) {
                                   if ($post['comment_author']){
                                        echo '<p>' . $post['comment_content'] . '</p>';
                                        echo '<p><small>-' . $post['comment_author'] . '</small></p>';
                                        }
                                        }
                              $comment_counter++;
                          }
                     $lastPost = $post['post_id'];
                     } 

                     $withcomments = '1';
                     comments_template();
                  }                                 

                     echo '</div>'; 

    } 

} 

?> 

</div><!-- end box div -->
<?php 

get_sidebar ();
get_footer (); 

?>

I’ve been trying to get the fields so people can comment for a long time, thanks for any ideas

tony