diff -ur ajax-comment-preview-2.3/ajax-comment-preview.js /home/ryanb/wc/plugins/ajax-comment-preview/ajax-comment-preview.js
--- ajax-comment-preview-2.3/ajax-comment-preview.js	2010-08-19 23:07:37.000000000 -0700
+++ /home/ryanb/wc/plugins/ajax-comment-preview/ajax-comment-preview.js	2010-12-10 13:34:22.000000000 -0800
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 		},
 		data: {}, // Holds about-to-be-POSTed data
 		oldData: {}, // Holds serialized string of last POSTed data
+		loading: '<span class="loading">' + t.loading + '</span>',
+		error: '<span class="error">' + t.error + '</span>',
 		button: $('#acp-preview'),
 		// The output div
 		preview: $('#ajax-comment-preview').ajaxError( function(event, request, settings) {
@@ -28,6 +30,7 @@
 			if ( !t.data.comment || t.oldData == $.param( t.data ) ) {
 				return false; // Blank || Last AJAX request was the same, so bail on this one.
 			}
+			t.preview.show().html( t.loading ); // Tell the user we're loading
 			jQuery.post( t.url, t.data, function( response ) { // POST the request
 				try {
 					var content, i, j;
@@ -90,8 +93,6 @@
 			}
 		};
 	}
-	t.loading = t.stringToDOM( t.loading ) || '';
-	t.error = t.stringToDOM( t.error ) || '';
 	if ( '' == t.emptyString ) {
 		t.preview.hide();
 	} else {
Only in /home/ryanb/wc/plugins/ajax-comment-preview/: loading.gif