I put up a snapshot of availaibility by classification and year in an excel (xls) file. Please take a look and let me know if it is helpful.
posted it here:
http://opensourceeconomics.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/comtrade-some-usage-notes-from-uc-berkeley/
(see the link to SEPT26)
Looks like some classifications have less country coverage.
Construction of this file proceeded with these steps:
1) import data into excel
2) get rid of extraneous columns
3) convert text to columns (comma separated)
4) used counta( ) function to get a count of countries.