Adding Featured Boxes

[AmyCelona]

Theme: Lifestyle 4.0
site: www.lifeiscrappy.net (beta site)

I have read several posts on how to add additional featured categories on the home page and have successfully duplicated and added four 'homepageright', 'homepageright1', etc. and also duplicated the css for each one.

Now I did the step by step posted by John Flynn at:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11697&p=57394&hilit=add+more+h ome+page+featured+boxes#p57394
and have gotten to Step 4 :

4. Go into functions.php and find your array options.
5. Copy those also and change the numbers form 1 and 2 to 3 and 4.

I realize that it must be that I am using a different version because I don't want to duplicate the sidebar, just edit the 'divs' that I have added. I am not posting to that thread as there are two questions hanging out there that have not been answered and I would just be adding to it.

So, now of course I have 10 featured boxes and none of them work... the 'automated' ones have lost their connection to the Lifestyle theme Options page (they show that one category) and I have tried to edit home.php and manually add this line:

<div id="homepageleft2">
<div class="hpfeatured">
<h3><?php echo cat_id_to_name(get_theme_mod('featured_top_left')) ; ?></h3>
<?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=22&showposts=1"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>

The red is where I called for a specific category and showposts=1 is the number of categories. Of course it does not work.

So, where do I go from here. i got to Step 4 of the directions and the array in Step 4 to add to would appear to add another sidebar which I do not believe I wish to do.

Thank you in advance for your advice.