Quicker Way to Enable Comments

Yes, easily. In the dashboard, go to Options –> Discussion and there you can select to enable comments and/or trackbacks for all posts. These choices can later be overridden on a post-by-post basis (the same box you are checking for every post now can be unchecked if you wish to disable comments on a specific post).

That didn’t work. :-/ That option was already selected, so I deselected it, then reselected it. Perhaps each entry’s individual settings override this?

Yes, the settings for an individual post will override the default. If you’ve previously had comments off, then posts will be created with the option off. If you turn the option on, new posts will have it on, but existing posts will be unaffected.

To change the status of all posts, you’d either need to edit the DB using phpMyAdmin (making sure you have a backup, and ideally a backup of the backup, etc), or look for a plugin that will make the change for you. (I have a vague feeling that there might be one, but I can’t quite recall it)

I’m extremely bored right now so I decided to go on ahead and finally tag all of my entries. I’m chaning the discussion options as I do so. Thanks, you guys, for your suggestions. ??

Sounds like fun!