this is a bug that was first introduced in version 3.3.3 due to a change in the way comment information was checked. The following change will do the following:

if comments are open it will display text string 1, 2, or 3 depending on which is appropriate

if comments are closed it will display
- nothing if text string 4 is 'dontshow'
- text string 4 if there are no comments, or
- text string 2 or 3 depending on the number of comments followed by text string 4

Edit bfa_postinfo.php and replace
line 23 (version 3.4.3)

	global $bfa_ata;

with

	global $bfa_ata, $post;

replace lines
lines 346-363 (version 3.4.3)

	// Comment link
	if ( strpos($postinfo_string,'%comments(') !== FALSE ) {
		
		$comment_options = preg_match("/(.*)%comments\('(.*?)'(.*?)'(.*?)'(.*?)'(.*?)'(.*?)'(.*?)'(.*)/i",
        $postinfo_string,$comment_matches);
		if ( !comments_open() AND $comment_matches[8] == "dontshow" ) { 
			$comment_link = ''; 
		} else { 
			ob_start(); 
				comments_popup_link($comment_matches[2], $comment_matches[4],
         		 $comment_matches[6], 'comments-link', $comment_matches[8]);
				$comment_link = ob_get_contents(); 
			ob_end_clean(); 
		}
		$postinfo = preg_replace("/(.*)%comments\((.*?)\)%(.*)/i", "\${1}" .
        $comment_link. "\${3}", $postinfo);
        
	}

with

	// Comment link
	if ( strpos($postinfo_string,'%comments(') !== FALSE ) {
		
		$comment_options = preg_match("/(.*)%comments\('(.*?)'(.*?)'(.*?)'(.*?)'(.*?)'(.*?)'(.*?)'(.*)/i",
        $postinfo_string,$comment_matches);
        
		if ( !comments_open() AND $comment_matches[8] == "dontshow" ) { 
			$comment_link = ''; 
		} else { 
			ob_start(); 
				comments_popup_link($comment_matches[2], $comment_matches[4],
         		 $comment_matches[6], 'comments-link', $comment_matches[8]);
				$comment_link = ob_get_contents(); 
			ob_end_clean(); 
		}

		if (!comments_open() ) {
			if ($post->comment_count == 0) {
				$comment_link = '<strong>' . $comment_matches[8] . '</strong>';
			} else {
				$comment_link = $comment_link . ' - <strong>(' . $comment_matches[8] . ')</strong>';
				}
		}
		if ( !comments_open() AND $comment_matches[8] == "dontshow" ) { 
			$comment_link = ''; 
		}
		
		$postinfo = preg_replace("/(.*)%comments\((.*?)\)%(.*)/i", "\${1}" .
        $comment_link. "\${3}", $postinfo);
        
	}

Fixed in 3.4.4