Help with setting up homepage please

[speedmouse]

I have just installed the new magazine theme, and after 3 hours of trying, can't understand how to setup the homepage

I have understood that we don't customise it in the same way as the old magazine theme (in the theme editor), but go to Appearance, magazine theme options - but I cannot see anyway to bring in more sections so that all my categories will be shown on the homepage (there will be about 12 of them).

It looks as though we can only have the number of category boxes that are there now, which is 1 Homepage Main, 1 Homepage Left and 1 Homepage right.

I have made 1 'test' post, using one of the categories and have enable this to show in the 'admin-magazine theme options' but this is not showing in the homepage at all. Just has the same 'hello world' post in the same test category I set up last night, in all the blocks...

Also, in the wigets, I want to enable categories to show in a list in the sidebar, but even though I have enable this, nothing is showing in the sidebar.

Many thanks for your time.
ps. is there a tutorial anywhere for the homepage setup - I've been looking but cannot find anything , plus search brings up no result

Edit: I've just deleted the 'hello world' post, but on refreshing the blog several times, it's still showing ...(think it's time I went to bed! :shock: )