Previous and Next Entries Link

I believe this is my first time asking a question, and I wish I didn’t have to. Here it goes, please be nice…

I’m trying to add a link at the bottom of the first page of the blog I’m working on that says ‘Previous Entries’ and links to page/2.

Seems simple enough, but every codex example I’ve tried either showed the next and previous post from the last post on the first page OR showed nothing at all.

So, I assume there is something up with my loop. Probably, because its a weird loop:

<?php
                        if (is_page()) {
                            $cat=get_cat_ID($post->post_title); //use page title to get a category ID
                            $posts = get_posts ("cat=-27,$cat&showposts=5");
                        if ($posts) {
                            foreach ($posts as $post):
                            setup_postdata($post);
                    ?>
                    <div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

At the end of the loop I ask for the previous and next links:

<?php endforeach;
                    }
                }
                ?>
		<div class="previous"><?php previous_post_link('PREVIOUS POST: %link') ?></div>
		<div class="next"><?php next_post_link('NEXT POST: %link') ?></div>

I realize in this example I’m using previous_post_link. I’ve used everything and nothing works properly.

The site I’m working on is here: http://jeneth.com

Any help would be spectacular. I hope I’m missing something easy and silly, but I need another set of eyes…mine are tired.

Thank you very much for reading.