Page w/ Custom Template actually defaults to Default Template

I’m guessing that the Page, which has the content “this should show up…” is what you are talking about…you would need a Loop in your page template to display that.

Just for info:

# Front page – Select in the drop-down box the actual Page that you want displayed as your front page. If you do not select a choice here, then effectively your blog will show your posts on both the blog’s front page and on the Posts page you specify. If you would like to create a static home page template file, do not name it home.php, otherwise you will encounter problems when you try to view the “blog”/”posts” section of your site. To get around this, just name it anything but home.php, for example, myhome.php