If your theme is old (made for WP version before 2.7) you will need to upgrade its code to work with threaded comments. Probably both internal code and styling.
Most fitting article I can find in docs is Migrating Plugins and Themes to 2.7/Enhanced Comment Display
Plus there were major changes to comment form functionality in 3.0, see comment_form() function.
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