PLEASE help! : Static home and custom Posts page

I hope someone can help me on this…

The site I’m working on is here.

I have a custom, semi-static home page. That works fine. it’s got two selective loops at the bottom of the static content.

My issue is that I can’t get the Posts page to work. Or at least get it to pick up the template.

I have a template called radical-ideas.php and a page with a slug of radical-ideas that is set to use the template file radical-ideas.php.

Even though I seem to have it set up correctly, when I navigate to radical-ideas.php, it seems to be using the default template. When I make changes to the radical-ideas.php file, they don’t show up, and the navigation indicator seems to think that it’s on the home page.

Here’s the template radical-ideas.php

<?php
/*
Template Name: Radical Ideas Blog
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="content_box">

		<div id="content">

<?php $posts = get_posts( "numberposts=10" ); ?>
		<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

			<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

			<h2>FOO<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
			<p class="post_date"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> — <?php the_category(', ') ?></p>
			<div class="entry">
				<?php the_content("Continue reading &rarr;"); ?>
			</div>
			<p><?php the_tags('<b>Tags:</b>', ',', '<br />'); ?></p>
			<p class="post_meta"><span class="add_comment"><?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></span></p>
			<?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>
			<?php endwhile; ?>

			<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/navigation.php'); ?>

		<?php else : ?>

			<h2>If you're seeing this, it's time to go slap somebody.</h2>
			<p class="post_date">* * *</p>
			<div class="entry">
				<p>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
				<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>
			</div>

		<?php endif; ?>

		</div>

		<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

	</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

What the heck am I doing wrong?! I’m going nuts with this…