I have managed to write the commenting portion of the engine, and it is fully operational, as you can see on the comment below.

The system is shaping up to be quite nice to configure, and the ability to move things on a whim is really, really nice.

I still need to work on the admin side of things as well as the gallery and contact pages. Each of them will be a seperate module that can be added or removed at will.

My hope is in the next week to get the entire site fully operational, but it may not be possible with my schedule in the coming week.