Posted Comment time problem

Hi, I recently started working on a new blog. I was using WP 2.7, and then upgraded to 2.7.1. I noticed that the time stamp on the posts didn’t include the time, so I searched around for instructions. Through advice on these forums, it looked like I needed to add
<?php the_time(); ?>
to the index.php, archives.php, single.php and comments.php. I did so. It looked like adding the time worked on the posts and archives, but I noticed something peculiar with the comments. While the comment times on my dashboard were correct, on the post itself the dates of each comment were correct, the the time was in all cases the time on the original post above the comments. (i.e., if the post date and time were 2/1/09 12:02 PM, the first comment might be dated 2/2/09 12:02PM, and the third 2/4/09 12:02PM. The same thing happened with other posts).

Anyone have any experience with that? If I remove the date, it goes back to just listing the day, but I really do want the time on it.

How do I fix the comments so that they have the actual posted time? Please note that I am coding challenged in any responses. 🙂

Thanks!

PS. I also see that there’s new comment threading functionality and that there are instructions for making changes to your themes so that you can use it. I looked at the instructions and they seemed pretty complicated for my coding challenged mind, so I’m wondering if comments.php are largely interchangeable, and if so, are there any that you can recommend that would have all of the souped up functionality? (The theme I’m using FYI is “Black and White” http://www.blogohblog.com/wordpress-theme-black-and-white/ )