<em>@Saguaros 432099 wrote:</em><blockquote>Please try to switch default template to another standard template of Joomla and see whether this feedburner module works or not.</blockquote>
I had someone take a look and he said that he had to disable one of the modules that was in conflict.
“… this is fixed. in the process of debugging, I upgraded joomla to 3.3.1. that was part of the problem. the second issue was that this template has an override file for the feed template that is apparently broken. once I disabled that the functioning core file kicked in and the feed displayed.”