Does it not work because theme is old or simply coded in incompatible way?
There is this article in Codex that might be relevant – Migrating Plugins and Themes to 2.7/Enhanced Comment Display.
Otherwise I’d take a look at some modern theme (like Twenty Ten) and see how is it properly coded for current WordPress version.
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