click on older entries doesnt show them-pagination problem

hey,
i am using theme overeasy, as it had a customized static home/index page , to show all post on a page called journal, i wrote the code below, the default archive.php is only for the side menu n looks like below. when i clik on older entires i go to the smae page, since i m calling showposts(8)
how to get tthis work….have bin trying since long..have a submission now
<?php

/*

Template Name: Archive page

*/

?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id=”columns”>

<div id=”centercol”>

<div class=”box”>

<div class=”top”></div>

<div class=”spacer”>

<div class=”page-title”>

Recent Journal Posts

</div>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<div <?php post_class() ?> id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>

<div class=”post-meta clearfix”>

<div class=”post-titlex”>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></div>

<span class=”post-time”>

<span>By <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></span>

<?php the_time( ‘l F j, Y’ ) ?>

</span>

</div><!– End post-meta –>

<div class=”post-cat”>

Comments: <span class=”stress”<?php comments_popup_link(__( ‘0’ ), __( ‘1’ ), __( ‘%’ )); ?> </span> , Categories: <span class=”stress”><?php the_category(“,”); ?></span>

</div>

<div class=”post-box”>

<div class=”post-content”>

<?php if( get_post_meta( $post->ID, “image_value”, true ) ) : ?>

<div class=”post-image”>

” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><img src=”<?php bloginfo( ‘template_directory’ ); ?>/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo get_post_meta( $post->ID, “image_value”, true ); ?>&w=521&h=246&zc=1″ alt=”<?php the_title(); ?>” />

</div>

<?php endif; ?>

<div class=”post-intro”>

<?php the_excerpt( ” ); ?>

</div><!– End post-intro –>

</div><!– End post-content –>

<div class=”post-footer clearfix”>

<span class=”continue-reading”>

#more-<?php the_ID(); ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Continue Reading <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”>Continue Reading

</span>

</div><!– End post-footer –>

</div><!– End post-box –>

</div><!– End post –>
<?php

endwhile;

endif;

?>

</br>

<span class=”scroll left”><?php next_posts_link(‘« Older Entries’) ?></span>

<span class=”scroll right”><?php previous_posts_link(‘Newer Entries »’) ?></span>

<br class=”fix” />

<div class=”fix”></div>

</div>

<!–/spacer –>

<div class=”bot”></div>

</div>

<!–/box –>

</div>

<!–/centercol –>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<br class=”fix” />

</div>

<!–/columns –>

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