We did everything we're supposed to do to display "latest news" and "most popular" modules, but they still won't show up. What are we doing wrong?

Didn't see this till now. I know a bit of Joomla - did you get this working?

yeah, we did! site is really starting to look good now. take a look - www.okchistory.com

Looks very nice. I'm a wordpress man myself these days. Still know some Joomla though

We chose Joomla a while back because we were needing a CMS that could take in a lot of content in various media.

Steve, I know a bit about Joomla and also have couple of developer packs with some really good Joomla designers. I mainly do everything with WP now as well. Let me know if I can be of any help.

Tyler@slapmarketing.com