Thanks for the reply, I checked the settings and its set to 10. The thing is, all the posts show fine when you click a category, its only when you view a single post (by clicking on a headline), that the wrong article comes up. Instead of the correct article showing, it always loads the latest article in the same category. Eg the address bar would should the permalink to the correct post, but only the latest one in that cat ever shows below. We just moved servers so maybe that could have something to do with it – the original server config was:
Operating system Linux
Kernel version 2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp
Apache version 1.3.41 (Unix)
PHP version 4.4.8
MySQL version 4.1.22-standard
And the current one is this:
Operating system Linux
Kernel version 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.centos.plusxen
Apache version 2.2.11 (Unix)
PHP version 5.2.8
MySQL version 5.0.67-community
The site is installed in a folder on the hosting account, and the previous website is still live – is it possible the root htaccess file is interfering with the one in the wordpress folder?