Hey Pyromanik, you cracked it!! Thanks heaps!!

Now, is there a way I can show the first few lines of each post (say three lines)?

Within the loop you have a full page to play with same like in any 'normal' (page) template.
$Content.FirstParagraph
or
$Content.LimitWordCount(50)

see - http://api.silverstripe.org/3.2/class-HTMLText.html

Cool! Thanks again -- got it sorted!

If you want your current latestBlogEntry function to work, try returning blogpost rather than the process.

gclub