Well, i guess you could wrap your comments div (.bComment) with <li> and use sth like:
.bComment li {list-style-type: decimal;}

That almost works - I'm trying to make it so the the text of the permalink for each comment is the number.

Ie. < a href= "etc"> 1. </a>

The only way to get this to work using a decimal styling is to have the < li>< /li> in the text option of the array for the permalink. This causes the link to be outside of the li (ie. < a href etc ></a>< li></li>) and it also loses the styling of the link.

I hope that made sense... ;)

I sort of solved this. I tied the comment time/date to the permanent url, instead of the comment number. Then I used CSS3 to add a comment count.

See
http://www.red-team-design.com/css3-ordered-list-styles
on how to do it.