theme options won't save & category ID trouble in blog templ

[all4balance]

I'm using streamline 3.0 ... my options won't save anymore like identifying what category to show on blog page. I have a feeling it's something I've done in the upgrade to 3.0. Anyway, I'm trying to get around it by using the page_blog template from 2.0 and using the cat id=10 (That's my category ID I need) option and that doesn't seem to work either. Any suggestions?
website ... www.thedigitalnotebook.com (starting with "News") ... that's my category 10 and I have 3 posts under that category.

Here's my code from my page_blog template:

<div class="postarea">

<?php $blog_cat_1 = get_option('streamline_blog_cat_1'); $blog_cat_1_num = get_option('streamline_blog_cat_1_num'); if(!$blog_cat_1) $blog_cat_1 = 10; //setting a default ?>

<?php $page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts("cat=".$blog_cat_1."&showposts=".$blog _cat_1_num."&paged=$page"); while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>