certain items in loop not appearing NEWBIE!

Hello,

I have taken the loop from the default wp theme and pasted it into my index.

Some of the items are showing up, others aren’t. even code on the same line will only half appear.

for instance, the content will show but the ‘read more…’ will not.

where its calls the author name, all that shows from that line is the category, no ‘by’ or name.

the comments popup does not show either. when clicked the no comments links just goes to the single post page.

I have the popup-link file in the theme folder. I have written the ‘if(is_singular…’ line into the header.

i have comments enabled and threaded comments also.

please see below for the code.

many thanks!

‘<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<div <?php post_class() ?> id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>
<h2>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<small><p class=”authorName” by <?php the_author_meta(‘first_name’);?> <?php the_author_meta(‘last_name’); ?> for <?php the_category(“, “) ?></p></small>

<div class=”entry”>
<?php the_content(‘Read the rest…’); ?>
</div>

<p class=”postmetadata”><?php the_tags(‘Tags: ‘, ‘, ‘, ”); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(‘, ‘) ?> | <?php edit_post_link(‘Edit’, ”, ‘ | ‘); ?> <?php comments_popup_link(‘No Comments »’, ‘1 Comment »’, ‘% Comments »’); ?></p>
</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<div class=”navigation”>
<div class=”alignleft”><?php next_posts_link(‘« Older Entries’) ?></div>
<div class=”alignright”><?php previous_posts_link(‘Newer Entries »’) ?></div>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>’