CMS Frustration with selecting only certain sections to show

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I'm trying to set up my CMS home page so that only articles posted within certain sections appear on the front page.

I'm wanting to use articles for a range of items - information posts, guides, etc. And I want to use my home page for news items. I only want certain aticles (news) to appear on the front page, none of the other items.

I created sections, but my first problem is I can't create a new top level section. Everything is falling under the "Latest News" section which doesn't seem right to me.

The second problem I am facing, is when I edit the latest news page and try to select only Latest News > News Articles and sub-sections, it's not saving.

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I want articles from ONLY those three sections to appear on the front page. But I can't get it to work. Doesn't matter what other sections I post articles to, the front page is displaying them ALL.

I tried to follow the guide found here: http://www.vbulletinguru.com/2010/static-pages/ to create a second top level section, but it only lets me edit the main one. I also can't get a section to NOT show on the section menu that comes with the CMS which is annoying as I don't want every section listed there.


Am I doing something wrong?
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