IntenseDebate making Adsense unit disappear

Yes, thank you! The homepage of the blog is http://dreamleague.org/blog. You should see the Google Adsense unit at the bottom of columns 3 and 4. Go ahead and click on any of the two test posts' Comment function and you will see that Adsense unit disappear, as ID's commenting engine appears. I probably put the Adsense code in the wrong place. I am happy to provide more details as we peel the onion a little here. Thank you. ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )

Actually, I got the Adsense unit to work and it was no fault of IntenseDebate's. It turns out that the particular theme I was using (and maybe this is true for all Wordpress themes) had a different file -- mine were index.php and single.php -- for the homepage and a page for the post itself. Maybe this is evident for most blogs, but for whatever reason, I was under the impression that such a file structure was not needed. Nevertheless, it does result in a lot of duplication of code. So I had to duplicate the same Adsense code to get it to work.

FYI, during my trials and tribulations, I switched away from IntenseDebate because of two other problems which weren't necessarily "mission critical":

(1) it seems that the Intense Debate engine doesn't automatically appear at the bottom of the post and I was having issues with my theme such that in Firefox, after you click on the comment link to go the post and comment, the Firefox browser wasn't automatically advancing down to the #idc-container anchor. Firefox would put me at the top of the post, which would effectively discourage someone from commenting if it happened to be a long post.

(2) Now that I was kind of "stuck" in an IE browser world given the aforementioned problem with Firefox, the "login with Twitter" button was crowded when viewing posts in IE, such that the button itself didn't work. The IntenseDebate and Facebook login bars worked okay. I don't know, maybe it was just because in my 4-column theme, the column for the actual post probably isn't wide enough to meet the IntenseDebate specs for those login bars.

Thanks for your attention to the matter, though. Incidentally, it doesn't appear to me that there's a whole lot of difference between IntenseDebate and its main competitor. It may just come down to the little quirks people discover during that small window of time when they setup their blog. FWIW, I appreciate that there's even a forum like this offered by IntenseDebate. Hopefully my experiences will help out someone else in the near future. ( Delete or Edit for 15 minutes )