I just had the same problem so I created a plugin to fix this. It is at this thread:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/79066?replies=1
Peter,
Not sure which theme template you are using, but you should go to your theme directory and edit the index.php file for the theme you use. Put the static stuff you want before the <?php if (have_posts()) : ?> portion.
Cheers!
Chris
If you use the template comments.php that is provided with the default theme, you should be able to hack it to do what you want. That’s what I did for my site http://www.silpstream.com/. I didn’t like the lists either.
Just replace the ‘list’ tags with the tags you want and include the comments template into the column that you want them to show up on.
You can use nearly any of the tags from http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/comment_text within the comment loop ‘foreach ($comments as $comment) :’
