When I click on my comments link and post something the number doesn't increase to reflect that there has just been a new post so I check out whether it has been really posted and it has.

Any ideas why the number of comments remains the same?

Try installing Digest::MD5 into your extlib.

Thanks for the prompt reply. I was about to try it when for some reason my problem sorted out by itself (and I did refresh quite a few times). Anyways thanks