Latest Post on Front Page

Well, I’ve been beating my head against the wall for some time trying to find an answer to this, but here it goes, I’m using the Semiologic Static Front Page Plugin or trying to at least. Here’s the thing, half the content will be static while the other will be dynamic and I want to get the dynamic content done first.

I hope this is easy. At the top of the page, I need a loop that will show the newest post from _any_ category. I’ve created my own home.php file and have edited it accordingly, copying index.php’s content, but even that won’t show up on the home page I specified. So I’m really at a loss as to what to do.