Comments on Author page

Update:

Ok,the DEBUG log says:

PHP Notice:  Undefined offset: 0 in /home/content/00/8437600/html/test/wp-includes/query.php on line 3105

PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/00/8437600/html/test/wp-includes/query.php on line 3939

PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/00/8437600/html/test/wp-includes/query.php on line 3941

PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/00/8437600/html/test/wp-includes/query.php on line 3943

PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/00/8437600/html/test/wp-includes/query.php on line 3944

PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/00/8437600/html/test/wp-includes/query.php on line 3952

PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/00/8437600/html/test/wp-includes/query.php on line 3967

NOTE:

At the top of my author.php I use the following code in order to get user meta for the page:

<? $curauth = (get_query_var('author_name')) ? get_user_by('slug',    
    get_query_var('author_name')) :    
    get_userdata(get_query_var('author'));
?>

End of update

Original Post

First – I am teaching myself how to write php and am also new to this forum.

I am trying to follow the instructions from the top answer for this question Author page: Comments and Ratings? to add comments to author.php – without any luck.

The following is the steps I have taken:

1. Created a custom post type to hold the comments
2. Created a new post in said post type
3. Created custom field in user meta called -> author_post_id
4. Added newly created post id to user meta for particular user Note: this works because I can add echo statement in the code provided and the above link and it echos the correct post id so I know I did something write (lol)
5. Copy/pasted the code given on the above link (answer #3) into my author.php

Nothing is showing up. What am I missing?

I even added wp_reset_query(); after the loop that displays post by the author and it made no difference.

Here is my test author page http://test.thesingleparentperspective.com/author/ckmatthews/