OK, one Problem with trackback in WP is that someone seems to have forgotten that some blogs do need to receive a query-Part in the trackbacked URI. I have changed one line in wp-includes/functions.php:
was: $http_request = ‘POST ‘.$trackback_url[‘path’].” HTTP/1.0\r\n”;
is: $http_request = ‘POST ‘.$trackback_url[‘path’].”?”.$trackback_url[‘query’].” HTTP/1.0\r\n”;
and have now sucessfully pinged a pivot-powered blog.
concerning threaded comments: yes, this is a feature I would like to see to be added. I do not have the time right at the moment to port the threading for comments I did within a php class i once wrote –> http://public.matthias-richter.de/phpmycoco but if someone starts doing threaded comments for WP he or she might wish to look how my implementation worked.