List of Recent Posts Showing Drafts and Scheduled Posts

You could just use a query to pull in recent posts :).

<ul>
 <?php $recent = new WP_Query("showposts=5"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
	<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
 <?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>

You can use a bunch of different parameters within that query too: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts#Parameters

If you still see your drafts/unscheduled posts, you can add in the following parameter:
&post_status=publish

You could also alter it to use “future”, “pending”, “draft” and a bunch of others (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts#Type_.26_Status_Parameters).