Thanks Chops! I did switch the comments back to the "Gallery Comments" forum, still no go. Was probably something silly I did somewhere...
It's a bug, I had fixed it, and somehow, it snuck itself back in (I must have been using an older version or something).
It's possible I've built skynet here and the system is self-aware, and it's first attack on the humans is to make your gallery comments harder to see. I suspect that's what's going on here, but until I dive back into the code, I won't know for sure.
Good thing I've got John Connor on speed dial.
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It's all in the reflexes.