Because the RSS is fouled up for some reason, I went looking for other RSS possibilities.
I finally stumbled across FeedBurner.
Actually, I had it running on the old site, and putting it up for the new one, kind of fell off the map. My fault.
Right off the bat, I started noticing some discrepancies in the way Sitemeter counts things.
Feedburner reports 58 hits in the last hour. Site meter records 38 hits in the last eighteen hours. Offhand, I’d say the RSS is a hit. But that’s just me.