Hello hello! I was frustrated to see this thread putter out, but I persevered and was able to solve the problem myself by specifying the ‘post_type’ in the query-post() method.
<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts("paged=$paged"); ?>
became
<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts("paged=$paged&post_type=post"); ?>
Hope this helps you out. Cheers.
-Phiip