yeah, it does the same thing for me. I never used the comments popup before, it would be nice to figure out why the popup window looks terrible.
so, I tried the plugin but that ended up not being what I needed. Instead I was able to do what I needed by adding the following code to first line of the index.php file.
“<?php
if ((empty($_GET[‘cat’]))&&(!preg_match(‘/wp-admin/’, $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’])))
$cat = ‘1’;
/* Don’t remove this line. */
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
?>”
thanks for your help though.