getting feedburner comment count to work with blogger

so the feedburner staff does not advertise this well, but after hours spent browsing pages and pages on this topic, i have finally found the solution, and it is a very simple one: your burned feed MUST be an atom feed, not an rss feed. to change this:

1) log into feedburner and edit "feed settings" and get rid of the ?alt=rss from the url you are burning.
2) save.
3) you are done. to make the effects happen quicker you can resync your feed