get_posts() displaying multiple times in loop

Hi Guys and Gals,

I’ve been using wordpress as a CMS for a site that I’m developing.

I’ve hit a bit of a snag. I’m creating a custom archive page which I want to show only the header and an excerpt from each available ‘post’. This is going to show as a list of press releases. I’ve gotten everything working as I like.. but the posts show up three times instead of one. I mean something like this:

Post 1
Post 2
Post 3
Post 4
Post 1
Post 2
Post 3
Post 4
Post 1
Post 2
Post 3
Post 4

Which is obviously not good.

The code I’m using to generate the list is:

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
  <div class="archives">
    <ul>
							       <?php
global $post;
$myposts = get_posts('offset=0');
foreach($myposts as $post) :
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<li>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><h2><?php the_title();?></h2></a>
									<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
        </li>
      <?php endforeach; ?>
    </ul>
  </div>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>

<p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>

<?php endif; ?>

It’s from the wp manual and I’m sure that I’ve messed up somewhere.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.