I’ve just encountered the (apparently) infamous disappearing Archives problem with Blogger. This, and some other difficulties that are apparently chronic but not fixed, raises in my mind the question of whether I’ve done the equivalent of a computer newbie buying a Windows machine because “that’s what everyone else does.”
PS: The instructions for making archives reappear seem to have worked, though this took some time. But I’d still be interested to hear from users of Movable Type and other systems, or to be given pointers to sites where the merits of different approaches are discussed/debated.