I must follow, if I can

I just upgraded MovableType from 3.14 to 3.35. This is a test post while I continue overhauling the stylesheet to work with the new class names, but I might go ahead and leave some helpful information in here in case anyone should happen upon it:

Because MovableType is written in Perl and intended for Unix servers, you have to hack it in order to get it to run on Windows (in my case, IIS 6). Here are the hacks:

1. I had to open each cgi file in WordPad instead of Notepad, because Notepad did not properly translate line breaks.
2. I had to go through all of the cgi files and replace "#!\usr\perl -w" with "#!C:\perl -w" on the first line.
3. I had to have the support people at Millennium Systems create a virtual directory pointing to my /mt/ directory, and then I changed the CGIPath in mt-config.cgi to point to that new virtual directory. (Also the static path.)
4. I had to re-upload everything using the Transfer Queue feature of SmartFTP, because FileZilla was bugging out.
5. When logging in to MovableType, I have to type in the url to the new virtual directory in order for things to work properly.

I heard that these newer versions of MT have Captcha built right in, so I won't have to require people to sign in to TypeKey in order to comment (a measure I had to take in order to avoid all the comment spam). I'm really looking forward to using this feature! Historically, most people who have created TypeKey accounts to comment on my blog have forgotten their logins and passwords almost immediately after commenting...

Update: Looks like Captcha won't be available on MovableType until version 4, which is currently in beta. Sorry, guys!

Update 2: I haven't finished updating all of the blogs yet, so for some of them, posting comments won't work. So, if you are unable to post a comment, use the comment form on lorddesign.net to send me a note, and tell me which blog you're trying to comment on, and I'll try to fix it. Thanks!