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I cannot tell what version of wp you are running as you have removed the meta tag in the header that would tell me – and others.
The function you may need is called ‘is_single’ and is AFAIK, a new feature in 1.3
If you are tempted to upgrade to take advantage of this – do a search here for ‘is single’ to read more – then please first read the sticky post in this forum.

Create a single.php template in wp-content. That will be used to display single posts. Just copy your index.php to single.php and change it to suite.
You can look at the Kubrick for 1.3theme for examples.
This applies to 1.3 only, of course.
Ryan

I wouldn’t recommend upgrading. 1.3 is still in alpha mode and not stable at all.
For 1.2, see if this works. Make a copy of index.php and call it main.php.
Open the main.php file, and remove the lines at the top where the wp-blog-header.php is included. Save it.
Open index.php, remove everything after the include for wp-blog-header.php.
After the include add this code:
<?php
if ($single) {
include("single.php");
}else{
include("main.php");
}
?>

I think that will do it.
Basicaly, what it does is this. If the $single flag is set, then it will include the single.php file, showing your single post. Otherwise it will load the main.php file, which will hold your main page.
TG