help with comments on “pages” created in the WP admin tools.

I originally posted this on the end of an old but similar thread but I don’t think it was noticed there so I thought I would try again with its own thread. I’d love a hand with this. I have used the admin tool to create a series of pages. One of those pages is a “guestbook” and following the instructions on geeksmakemehot.com I wrote a template that is similar to page.php but adds in the loop for comments (or at least I think I have that right) and created the page with “Allow Comments” checked. The trouble is the “post” on the page I created (the guestbook page – https://www.ariellovesdana.com/wordpress/?page_id=26) doesn’t show up like the post on the main page (www.ariellovesdana.com/wordpress/) but instead just appears as a string of text. Even with the comments_popup_link() I don’t get a link under my “post” to comment. What am I missing? What I was hoping to do was to create this guestbook page and have it take comments. Incidentally, here’s the template I created for this little project:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Guestbook
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id=”noticias”>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class=”entrada”>
<h2 id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>
” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>”>
<?php the_title(); ?>

</h2>
<small>
<?php comments_popup_link(‘No Comments’, ‘1 Comment’, ‘% Comments’); ?>
</small>
<?php the_content(“Continue reading “.the_title(”, ”, false).”…”); ?>
<div class=”feedback”>
<?php link_pages(‘Pages: ‘, ”, ‘number’); ?>
<?php edit_post_link(‘Edit’, ‘ a€?? ‘, ”); ?>
</div>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thanks for any help you can offer!