limiting number of posts on homepage only

Hello,

I’m trying to limit the number of posts on the home page, but it doesn’t seem to be working. It is showing 5, and I want it to show 3. I have 3 set up in the Reading settings. Is it because two of the posts are sticky posts? On my other blog category pages it is showing many more posts.

Or do I have to insert special code on the homepage? I’ve tried some coing I’ve found on the forums but they didn’t work.

This is the site.

Here is the index.page loop:

<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn blog" role="main">

	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

	<div <?php post_class() ?>>

			<h3 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>

			<div class="entry">

				<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

			</div>

		</div>

	<?php endwhile; ?>

	<div class="navigation">

		<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Previous Posts') ?></div>

		<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Posts &raquo;') ?></div>

	</div>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

Thanks.