yay! i figured it out.
Settings>Discussions:
Break comments into pages with 50 comments per page and the last page displayed by default
i unchecked the box.
woohoo! crisis averted!
here’s a link to my blog post:
http://saraseetonphotography.com/blog/?p=461
it’s adding all the new comments…but the first 50 comments are not appearing.
