SimpleComments is great for combining comments and trackbacks into a single listing but it lacks conditional logic on the counter. Kevin Shay's Compare plugin can be used to get round this.
Compare allows you to apply conditional logic to any Movable Type tag. In this case, MTSimpleCommentCount.
For example:
<MTIfGreater a="[MTSimpleCommentCount]" b="0" numeric="1">
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