I may not be at Rhinebeck, but I did get something accomplished this weekend!
Not only did I update to Movable Type 4.21 (which was not painful at all given that I started from MT 4.12 -- typical of MT updates, major updates are painful, minor updates are so trivially accomplished you wondered why you even backed things up before doing them) but I got my templates in order as well, so that my archive pages all are stylistically similar to my main pages. And I learned a bit more about MT4 -- not as much as I would like to know, but enough to feel a little more competent manipulating my own website.
Even more fun, I now have real, live comment threading set up -- it's now possible to reply to comments. Since this makes it much easier for me to share my responses and to have a better dialog with everyone, I hope that if you leave a comment that was looking for an answer or that was meant to start some discussion, you'll come back and check later to see what's going on.
I'm so happy about this I'm going to treat myself to some brownies and some actual knitting tonight!
I'm glad you managed to upgrade and iron everything out. It does look better, especially when viewing single entries and making a comment. I hope someone replies to this so see if the threading thing works!
Replying to comment to a)see if the threading thing works and b) tell you that it is much more cohesive seeing your banner instead of the MT default on sub-pages etc :)
Glad you like what you see. I like it better this way too! It just takes a lot of activation energy to get over that initial hump of learning enough about MT to get the job done.