I seem to have managed to sort out the back end problem associated with the Movable Type upgrade.

In spite of the inherent pain involved in any MT upgrade, I would highly recommend it to any blogger still running an older version of Movable Type.

I was quite depressed about the amount of spam this weblog was attracting; hated having them on the site, having to clean them up. I was seriously thinking about taking down the individual page archive rather than waste time trying to manage spam when MT released this version which provides much more sophisticated comment management module.

I am planning to have the comments functionality back up in a few days, but with a caveat. You will need to register in Typekey (run by MT) to be able to comment on any post here. Typekey has a fairly simple registration process (and I certainly dont want the overhead of moderating comments if they can keep the spammers at bay). Also, if you register with typekey, apparently you will be able to use their authentication for any other Movable Type powered weblog (so long as that weblog accepts typekey registered accounts). Hopefully, at some point of time, Six Apart and Google will start talking to each other and one registration will suffice for both blogger and Movable Type accounts!