Finally figured out why my publish checkbox isn’t working on this app i’m writing. apparently MT’s XML-RPC metaweblog.newPost’s boolean publish flag has nothing to do with the publish/draft status in mt, well at least since 2.1:

http://www.cookcomputing.com/blog/archives/000286.html

indeed, the manual is unclear. :(

I don’t see just yet why they determined why this “was a bad idea”…and it’s annoying to have to actually set a config entry on the server to get the more intuitive behaviour.