Underneath my posts (on the "Posts" page) there is an indicator of how many comments there are but i would like the actual comments to display.

I have tried adding <?php $withcomments = 1; ?> to the top section of "The Loop" and also have removed <p>Comments are closed.</p> from the "Comments are closed text" option. This is not a caching issue.

My sites mostly aren't designed for comments but this one is so this is new territory for me - any suggestions?

Thanks
Thomas

what is the site and a url pointing to a page where you are having the issue

http://papayaseeds.net - Home page

Comments display on the 'single post' pages not the blog page - which is what your home page is. If you display one of the posts you WILL see al teh comments.

Now do you want to display the comments on the 'blog' page? This can cause a performance hit on the site if there are lots of comments. However if you want to do it, do a search ther the forums. I seem to remember Flynn (the theme author) giving instructions how to do it. If you can find the thread and it needs updating I can take a look at it.

You could also do a google search and see if you can find a plugin to do this.

I've been searching the forums and I can't find out how I get the comments to show instead of the link. e.g. One Comment.

not sure I understand. Where are you talking about? on a single post page, multi post page? did you look thru the 'Edit POST/PAGE INFO ITEMS' options?