Thank you for the reply, but I already read through the codex entries and returned with nothing.
I switched to the next_posts and previous_posts tags but they didn’t do much either.
I should also add that it works when I set the limit on the “Reading” panel to the same number. But will it affect all other loops I’m using as well? I’ve manually set the show_posts parameter in all of the others, and they seem to display the correct amount.