Quick Wordpress help

Hello, comments on my blog are all messed up.

Here is a test:
http://dodesign.fh-net.com/thewriterblog/?p=7

When I try posting it takes me to ( http://dodesign.fh-net.com/thewriterblog/wp-comments-post.php ) and says "Error: please type a comment."

Here is the code from comments.php

<?php // Do not delete these lines
	if ('comments.php' == basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']))
		die ('Please do not load this page directly. Thanks!');

        if (!empty($post->post_password)) { // if there's a password
            if ($_COOKIE['wp-postpass_'.$cookiehash] != $post->post_password) {  // and it doesn't match the cookie
				?>
				
				<p class="nocomments"><?php _e("This post is password protected. Enter the password to view comments."); ?><p>
				
				<?php
				return;
            }
        }

?>



<?php if ($comments) : ?>


<a name="comments" id="comments"></a>
	<h3 id="posttitle"><?php comments_number('No Responses', 'One Response', '% Responses' );?> to “<?php the_title(); ?>”</h3> 

<div class="post">
	<ol class="commentlist">

<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>


		<li id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
			<p class="commentmetadata"><img src="images/comment.png" height="16" width="16" alt=""  /><span class="commentname"><?php comment_author_link() ?> wrote:</span></p>
			<?php comment_text() ?>	
		</li>

<?php endforeach; ?>


	</ol>
	
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>

<h3 class="posttitle">Leave a comment</h3>

<?php if ( get_option('comment_registration') && !$user_ID ) : ?>
<p>You must be <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php the_permalink(); ?>">logged in</a> to post a comment.</p>
<?php else : ?>

<form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">


<?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>

<p>Logged in as <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity; ?></a>. <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?action=logout" title="<?php _e('Log out of this account') ?>">Logout &raquo;</a></p>
 
<?php else : ?>

<p><input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?>" size="22" tabindex="1" />
<label for="author"><small>Name <?php if ($req) _e('(required)'); ?></small></label></p>
 
<p><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" size="22" tabindex="2" />
<label for="email"><small>Mail (will not be published) <?php if ($req) _e('(required)'); ?></small></label></p>
 
<p><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="22" tabindex="3" />
<label for="url"><small>Website</small></label></p>
 
<?php endif; ?>
 
<p><textarea id="comment" rows="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p>
 
<p><input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" />
<input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />
</p>
<?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>

</form>

<?php endif; endif; ?>
</p>
</form>

Code (markup):

One more thing I noticed is that on the home page (http://dodesign.fh-net.com/thewriterblog/index.php) the dates only show up for the first post. The post part of index.php is:

<div class="post">
	<h3 class="posttitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><span class="postdate"><?php the_date('F j, Y'); ?></span></h3>
	<?php the_content(); ?>
	<p class="postinfo"><img src="images/tag_green.png" height="16" width="16" alt="" />Posted in <?php the_category(', '); ?> by <?php the_author(); ?> | <img src="images/comment.png" height="16" width="16" alt="" /><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>#comments"><?php comments_number('No comment', '1 comment', '% comments'); ?></a></p>
</div>

Code (markup):

 

Does that work in other themes?

 

I have no clue. I'm making the theme myself.

that's why im running into problems, lol.

 

Okay, the comments are working now (all I had to do was add name"comments" to <textarea>. How about the second problem:


One more thing I noticed is that on the home page (http://dodesign.fh-net.com/thewriterblog/index.php) the dates only show up for the first post. The post part of index.php is:

<div class="post">
	<h3 class="posttitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><span class="postdate"><?php the_date('F j, Y'); ?></span></h3>
	<?php the_content(); ?>
	<p class="postinfo"><img src="images/tag_green.png" height="16" width="16" alt="" />Posted in <?php the_category(', '); ?> by <?php the_author(); ?> | <img src="images/comment.png" height="16" width="16" alt="" /><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>#comments"><?php comments_number('No comment', '1 comment', '% comments'); ?></a></p>
</div>

Code (markup):

Anyone know