Don't be alarmed. Whatever Blogger did this past week seems to have screwed up many blogger templates, mine included. Rather then try to recreate all the tweaking I did to my old one, I took the lazy way out and switched to a new template. If you're looking for the archive links, they're now grouped at the bottom of the page. This gives more girth to the blog and allows it to house all my verbosity and graphics without me doing a lot of formatting.

I'm still looking for a solution to my one pet peeve with blogger. If anyone has suggestions, please feel free to speak up!

I've used several blog templates provided on blogger.com's website and experience the problem with each of them so I don't think the problem is specific to a particular template. Not sure if additional code is needed in the blog template or if the problem is due to the fact that I display the FTP'd blog file on this page using inline frames.

The problem:

The indexing of archives works as designed and is displayed correctly on my blog page. The problem is that the archive process does not clean up the "current entries/main page." This is causing an increasing problem with download times since I use a lot of photos in my blogging to break up the walls of text. Currently all posts with a 2005 date are displayed on the current posts page.

The desired solution:

I want the indexing and display of archives to continue working as they do, however, I'd like the display of blog posts to be truncated to the frequency set in the ARCHIVE settings tab of my blogger dashboard. Specifically, I'd like to display only the current month's postings on the main page with all other stale dated posts accessed/displayed only by clicking on one of the archive index links.

Is anyone able to supply advice to solve the problem on my own or to provide template code for me to use with editing instructions?

My thanks and appreciation to anyone willing to help.

I posted this same question on bloggerforum.com. If anyone provides a solution, I'll share it here.