Comic Navigation Broken

So, our host auto updated wordpress and the comicpress theme to the latest version and the widgets disappeared as well as the comics. Rather than deal with getting it fixed, we opted to revert back to an old backup of the theme, which is 2.9.2. After refreshing the permalinks, everything looked as normal. However, the one issue that remains that I can’t figure out is the comic navigation…
It only shows the first and the last buttons (and shows the first and last comic correctly). We can go through the archives and click on single comic posts links – like in the calendar widget – and see those fine. But, we can’t cycle through with the navigation. I tried disabling the comic navigation in the settings and adding it as a widget, but that didn’t work.
How can I restore the navigation??