Future posts and single.php

Hi guys,

I am a wordpress newbie and completely baffled. Got my archive page working nicely. However, my main event listings page displays ok (via index.php) showing only future events, but when I click the permalink the page stays on index.php and does not redirect to single.php to display the single post.

My homepage uses page.php (as I wanted to display some jquery widget on it) and I have future events listed on the page.php also. When I click the future event ‘the_permalink’ on page.php also, the page just

Not sure if my query is incorrect, or I have just not noticed something verys simple, but I have gone blind looking now and was wondering if someone could help? I have noticed that when I log in as admin, the posts display, when I log out, they do not.
index.php

<div class="entries">

	<?php $recent = new WP_Query("post_status=future&order=asc"); if (have_posts()) :
while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>

				<div class="entry">
					<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title();?></a></h2>
					<p><?php the_date();?></p>
					<p><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>">Read more</a></p>
				</div>

	<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php else: ?>
<p>Sorry, there are currently no walks or events, but keep checking!</p>
<?php endif; ?>

single.php

<?php if(have_posts()) : ?><?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
			<h2 class="top"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
			<?php the_content(); ?>
	<?php endwhile; ?>

	<?php endif; ?>