Hi there:
I had the same problem. Actually any ajax example seems to work.
In the blog chapter there is a reference to some "helper.
js" file.
I´ve looked for this file in the code i´ve downloaded from the site; i´ve searched the code for this file in the book. But there was no "helper.
js".
After thinking a lot i´ve changed the reference in "admin.php"
from : "helper.
js"
to : "ajax.
js"
and voila.
Now i can update and delete previous posts in the "blog chapter"
I haven´t reviewed the "show comments" issue (not working yet

).
Hope this is useful

.
Note: I´m working with the source code provided in the wrox site so it must work for everybody.
Note2: I´m not english spoken so forgive me, if I can´t make me understand.