Ok, I tried that and still no difference. I also checked with my host and they cannot offer any help because they offer Serendipity with one of their higher hosting packages. So I tried some things on your idea of the templates. I kept changing the templates to see if that would make a difference ...

Sorry, I must have cut that off when I copied the paths to send to you, because when I went into the config, the slash is there.

Here is what I have:

serendipityPath - home/content/i/w/b/iwbwemf/html/serendipity/
uploadPath - uploads/
serendipityHTTPPath - /serendipity/
templatePath - templates/
uploadHTTPPath - uploads/

How's this?

drwxrwxrwx 2 iwbwemf inetuser 8192 Oct 15 10:42 templates_c

Here it is:

-rwxrwxrwx 1 iwbwemf inetuser 16251 Oct 11 16:34 blue^%%1B^1BC^1BCF14D2%%entries.tpl.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 iwbwemf inetuser 4182 Oct 11 16:34 blue^%%72^726^726DD0BD%%plugin_calendar.tpl.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 iwbwemf inetuser 3885 Oct 11 16:34 blue^%%96^967^9670EBB1%%index.tpl.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ...

I did and they are. I saw that in another post. Anything else I can try?

Fresh install. Someone added comments to a blog and when you try to view the comments in the blog area, you get this:
Warning: Smarty error: unable to read resource: "file:" in /serendipity/bundled-libs/Smarty/libs/Smarty.class.php on line 1088
But if I view the comments in the admin section, the ...