what's going on

I don't understand why my blog isn't updating even though I have
sent several email entries.

I also don't understand why I have set my blog preferences for
7 days to be displayed yet entries going back to October 3 still
appear on the main blog page.

What gives, blogger people??

[retrieved from my sent-mail and posted manually... also the
last several posts finally made it up, but I edited the time
and date on them because they were off by... well, let's just
say a LOT.]