So, in a feeble attempt to get this working I've checked out gnome-blog vs. this MT blog. And things miraculously seem to work!
I'm thinking this is the first serious entry in my new career as a blogger. We hey ho ho ho.
i still think MT is overengineered, I've tweaked more with PyBloxom and it feels much saner and smoother, however also more errorprone for some reason