Posted by dru_paul on June 29, 2011 at 7:11pm
(referring to this post, which is the conclusion of a thread and patch created by heyrocker)
http://drupal.org/comment/reply/182069/1395176
I traced my problem to an error in the final Drupal 5 patch.
It has a trailing comma after the last array which causes the patch routine to choke and not spit out the module itself. So, after correcting that, and following up with all the other requisites, I can now post comments remotely.
yay
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