Dear Blogger.....where is MY bling? (or....the one where I post a blatant cry for help in hopes that SOMEONE at Blogger is listening)

So first you throw this no more Google Friends thing at us (which I am NOT happy about; a fact which you have obviously  ignored) and now apparently, you have a nifty new feature.  It's called threaded commenting....or something like that.

I first noticed it on Sunday over at Jerry's blog, Gently Said, and I wanted it.  Immediately.  Never mind the fact that I often don't play with my new features once they are out of the box.  I wanted it.  I NEEDED it.

I figured THIS would be the solution to those that comment but don't have their email connected (OR their blog linked - seriously? HOW do you expect to gain traffic if you don't at least have your profile linked?  Am I right?  Some of you are WordPressinians and your system is different.  To you I give a pass (just barely), but to the Blogger users?  You better have a darn good reason, dammit *stamps foot* to NOT have your blog linked - I can *almost* understand the email thing, but the lack of blog-linkage is inexcusable) so I can't respond unless I coerce or bribe them into giving me their email so I can bypass the whole noreply-comment@blogger.com thing.

So I fired off an email to Jerry with a list of demands questions about it.  And waited.  When he replied, I was downcast, but not deterred.

He informed me that this was a new Blogger feature and that one day it was *just there.*  WHAT?!  It wasn't *just there* for me!  So I did a little digging.  Do this, change that and viola!  THERE should be your threaded comments.....except they weren't.

I got nothing.  I am not happy, Blogger.  I WANT the shiny, new features (whether I utilize them or not) to "bling" my blog.

I read something about how this shiny, new feature may not work with "custom" templates....but, but, I DON'T have a custom template (insert whiny voice)!  Ever since my custom template got hacked I've stayed true to YOU; I've only used your Blogger-blessed template....so where is my shiny, new feature, huh?  What's a girl got to do to get this feature?  I've been ALL OVER the web looking for a solution (okay, okay, not ALL OVER the web, but I HAVE looked) and I got nothing.  So come on, Blogger, help a girl out....fix my problem and I'll love you forever, I promise.

And friends?  If any of you have a solution, I'll love YOU even more....especially if it doesn't involve html....or you can explain it in Gigi-ese....which basically means do it for me, pretty please.