In regard to the very first question of the very first post, I have to say that even after reading about Pages in the Codex, I had trouble “getting” how Pages functioned in WordPress. I kept confusing Templates and Pages; I couldn’t see how they were different. Finally, something my son said made the light go on for me. He said that “a Page is just a hacked-up post.” True, a Page is not a post, but it does use a modified form of The Loop to display what you type in Write Page or Manage Pages. It will not be sort or organized by date or category. It will be organized by the Page/SubPage structure you develop as you write Pages. But Pages are fetched by WordPress in a similar manner to Posts, and are slapped into the template you design for them (Custom Template) , or, if you didn’t design one, it will use the Page Template, and if that isn’t there, it will use the Main Template. Once I envisioned myself typing a Post that didn’t have a date, comments, or trackback, I saw how the Template worked in connection with the Page.
