I want comments to Show entirely and archives question

I am using WP 2.7.1

Theme is Blocks2 1.2.5

I have two prpoblems:

1) I want the comments and posts to show up the entire post NOT a summary. I went into WP and checked and it is set to do full text, butit still doesn’t do it.

2) When I click on a category it says that a post I posted today is an archive. How is it an archive if I just posted it today? How do I make it current? Of course the whole text doesn’t show up either!

TIA!