Creating a non-homepage blog main page

I am new to wordpress themes and am looking to create my own page template.

My homepage is not going to list all of the posts like a typical blog but a sub-page will.

I came up with the following page template but it is not behaving as I would like it and I just can’t seem to figure out what is going on.

Some things not working are:

Tags not showing up, number of comments not showing up I cant seem to get prev next to work when I add it in.

Any help or being pointed to resources/documentation would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks
Brian

<?php
/*
Template Name: Blog Listing
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
	<div id="content">
		<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
		<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
		</div>
		<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
		<?php
		// Declare global $more, before the loop.
		global $more;
		?>
		<?php
		 $lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=10');
		 foreach($lastposts as $post) :
		    setup_postdata($post);
		 ?>
			<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
				<h4><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
				<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>
				<div class="entry">
					<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
				</div>
				<p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>
			</div>
		 <?php endforeach; ?>
	</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>