in custom posts

In the birth stories page the ‘more tag’ opens a single post page, in the articles page the ‘more tag just expands each post on the same page, so when the page is fully filled with many articles it will become unmanageably enormous. The ‘Birth Stories” template is just the index.php, the articles page works with this .
(thanks)

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<?php
/**
 * Template Name: ARTICLES-2-PAGE*/ 

 get_header(); ?>
  	<!-- section -->
	<section role="main">

	  		 <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
			<?php query_posts( 'post_type=articles'); ?>
			<?php if (have_posts()): while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
				<!-- article -->
				<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"
<?php post_class("MEMarticlePost"); ?>>
				  <!-- post title -->
				  <!-- post thumbnail -->
					<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail()) : // Check if thumbnail exists ?>
						<a>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
							<?php the_post_thumbnail(array(120,120)); // Declare pixel size you need inside the array ?>
						</a>
					<?php endif; ?>
					<!-- /post thumbnail -->
					<!-- post title -->
					<h2>
						<a>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
					</h2>
					  <?php
					global $more;
					$more = 0;
					?>
					<?php the_content(); ?>
					<?php comments_template( '', true ); // Remove if you don't want comments ?>
					<br class="clear">
					<?php edit_post_link(); ?>
				</article>
				<!-- /article -->
			<?php endwhile; ?>
			<?php else: ?>
				<!-- article -->
				<article>
					<h2><?php _e( 'Sorry, nothing to display.', 'html5blank' ); ?></h2>
				</article>

			<?php endif; ?>

			</section>
				<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
		<?php get_footer(); ?>

yes, it does:

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<!-- section -->
	<section role="main">
	 <?php query_posts( 'post_type=articles'); ?>
	<?php if (have_posts()): while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

		<!-- article -->
		<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class("journalPost"); ?>>

			<!-- post thumbnail -->
			<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail()) : // Check if Thumbnail exists ?>
				<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
					<?php the_post_thumbnail(); // Fullsize image for the single post ?>
				</a>
			<?php endif; ?>
			<!-- /post thumbnail -->

			<!-- post title -->
			<h1>
				<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
			</h1>
			<!-- /post title -->

			<!-- post details -->
			<span class="date"><?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?> <?php the_time('g:i a'); ?></span>
			<span class="author"><?php _e( 'Published by', 'articles' ); ?> <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></span>
			<span class="comments"><?php comments_popup_link( __( 'Leave your thoughts', 'articles' ), __( '1 Comment', 'articles' ), __( '% Comments', 'articles' )); ?></span>
			<!-- /post details -->

			<?php the_content(); // Dynamic Content ?>

			<?php the_tags( __( 'Tags: ', 'articles' ), ', ', '<br>'); // Separated by commas with a line break at the end ?>

		    <!-- <p><?php _e( 'Categorised in: ', 'articles' ); the_category(', '); // Separated by commas ?></p>

		   		    <p><?php _e( 'This post was written by ', 'articles' ); the_author(); ?></p>   --> 

			<?php edit_post_link(); // Always handy to have Edit Post Links available ?>

			<?php comments_template(); ?>

		</article>
		<!-- /article -->

	<?php endwhile; ?>

	<?php else: ?>

		<!-- article -->
		<article>

			<h1><?php _e( 'Sorry, nothing to display.', 'articles' ); ?></h1>

		</article>
		<!-- /article -->

	<?php endif; ?>

	</section>
	<!-- /section -->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

thanks again

THANKS- that worked-
at first I had just commented it out, but when I deleted the line it made it all work beautifully,
Thanks so much for the help, always more to learn!

Eve
I will mark this resolved-