Hi robinqld,
I had exactly the same problem. The mistake I made was to name the template file for my homepage “home.php”. Perhaps you did the same?
Check here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page. There it says: “you must NOT name your home page template file “home.php””.
Don’t ask me why. I am completely new to CSS and php. But after renaming my homepage template file everything worked well.
Best,
Carmen
