[TYPO3-UG Australia] frustration

[David Cake]

	Typo3 is a source of some frustration to me. Works well, but 
developing can be quite frustrating - the simplest things seem to
	Todays example
- I have a simple html block in a template that I wish to replace 
with news items from tt_news. If I try to replace it with simple 
static content, it works fine.
eg
in my main template I have
subparts.newitems < temp.newsbox
and if I have
temp.newsbox = TEXT
temp.newsbox.value = Some text
then it works fine.
But if I change it work with the plugin, ie
  temp. newsbox {
	code >
	code = LATEST
	pid_list >
   	pid_list = 217 # the pid of the page with some associated news items

   	catImageMode = 0
   	catTextMode = 0
}

then I get only the original template. Whats going on? Am I missing 
some aspect of how templates work?

Thanks in advance

	David