Also, i cant get the voting to work, it is enabled in the settings but the thumbs up / down icons dont show at the front end??
this is normal, search trough forum because I've already described how it works. If user has no rights to vote (user already voted, user is guest and someone vote from same IP, user is the comment author).
I`ve had a look at the kcaptcha.php file and made changes there but the changes dont have any effect?
You need adjust image size in this file and you also adjust image size in tpl_form.php file:
<img class="captcha" onclick="jcomments.clear('captcha');" id="comments-form-captcha-image" name="captcha-image" src="<?php echo $link; ?>" width="121" height="60" alt="<?php echo JText::_('FORM_CAPTCHA'); ?>" /><br />