Custom Homepage Hides the Blog Index! Would love your help…

Hi all,

I have a custom homepage (using one of my pages).
eg. myblogname.com (actually is page called “Home”)

But I would also like users to view the index page of my blog like a normal front page
eg. myblogname.com/blog/ (has all my posts like a normal blog index)

Here’s what I’ve done so far:

1. Changed front page in settings to point to a Page
2. Replicated the index.php in my theme folder, and I called it blog.php & added the template name to the top
3. Created a new page called “Blog”, using the blog.php template

But going to myblogname.com/blog doesn’t bring up the posts!

I’ve already asked in the IRC channel (hopeless) and checked the following forum posts:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/147617
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/154540

Is someone out there able to tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Davexw