Dreamwidth style system discussion

I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve here since, in the Core, these links are printed in the footer already:

    """<div class="footer">\n""";
    """<div class="inner">\n""";
    $e->print_tags();
    $e->print_management_links();
    if ($this isa EntryPage) {
        """<hr class="above-entry-interaction-links" />""";
        $e->print_interaction_links("topcomment");
        $this->print_reply_container({ "target" => "topcomment" });
        """<hr class="below-reply-container" />""";
    }
    else {
        $e->print_interaction_links();
    }
    "</div>\n</div>\n";
    $e->print_wrapper_end();

}

Also, would you post your whole print_entry function or make your layer viewable? I tried to see if these could be repeated - in header and footer - and it worked fine for me.