Sorry I realize what I had done wrong now, I'm a little slow

Thanks a lot its working fine now!

No thats not the problem. I do not want all that under each article. What I mean is when you click the comments button up the top and have the chance to place a comment if you are logged in there is a little "reply" icon under previous comments. When I click this to reply directly to someones comment nothing happens.

Yes, because the javascript code is missing. I just checked your site and noticed that you have remove the javascript in question from template articles_summary as well.

You need to add this at the end of articles_summary:

<script type="text/javascript">

<!--

function quoteme(username, postdate, quote)

{

    window.document.getElementById("commentform").input_message.value =

    window.document.getElementById("commentform").input_message.value + "Posted by " + username + " on " + postdate + "\\n

" + quote + "

\\n";    

    window.document.getElementById("commentform").input_message.focus();

}

-->

</script>

Also are the comment numbers meant to be unique to a thread or is it universal across the site?

For example I just posted a new article yet the first two comments have been labeled #17 and #18. That could get confusing.

No, that's the number of the comment in the articles comments database. The numbers are not unique to a thread.

No thats not the problem. I do not want all that under each article. What I mean is when you click the comments button up the top and have the chance to place a comment if you are logged in there is a little "reply" icon under previous comments. When I click this to reply directly to someones comment nothing happens.

Also are the comment numbers meant to be unique to a thread or is it universal across the site?

For example I just posted a new article yet the first two comments have been labeled #17 and #18. That could get confusing.

Are you using  this modification? I just noticed that the Javascript part is missing.

This articles_layout_pages template should work:

<!-- Template: articles_layout_pages -->

{$insert['articles_pages_header']}

{$insert['articles_pages_pagenav']}

{$insert['articles_pages']}

{$insert['articles_pages_advertisement']}

{$insert['articles_pages_pagenav']}



<script type="text/javascript">

<!--

function quoteme(username, postdate, quote)

{

    window.document.getElementById("commentform").input_message.value =

    window.document.getElementById("commentform").input_message.value + "Posted by " + username + " on " + postdate + "\n

" + quote + "

\n";    

    window.document.getElementById("commentform").input_message.focus();

}

-->

</script>



{$insert['articles_summary_comment_manage_header']}

{$insert['articles_summary_comment']}

{$insert['articles_summary_comment_manage_footer']}

{$insert['articles_summary_comment_pagenav']}

{$insert['articles_summary_comment_form']}



{$insert['articles_pages_footer']}