Comments problems

Drupal 4.3.2
New comments are not showing on the site in the moderation queue.

specifically administer --> comments -> overview, then click on "comment approval queue" there appears only a list of existing approved comments, no new ones to approve. The only way I can seem to get them to show is by going directly into the "comments" table in the database (for which I am usung mysqlcc) and change "status" from "1" to "0" for the comment.

WTF am i doing wrong?

PS comments I post from my account get shown automatically, presumably as i am the admin.