Thanks Rob, it’s definitely gratifying to know that help is on the way!
By way of a little more detail and background, I have tried using the code in this post on my home.php:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-the-events-calendar-display-listphp-on-index-page-and-other-pages?replies=1
But I find that it produces a list of ALL events, starting with the upcoming ones and just continuing down the line with past ones. Ouch!
I also see some code in there that sort of cryptically refers to the list.php template:
Yet it’s inactive due to the comment marks, and when I remove them just for fun, I get a notice on the resulting page that there are “no upcoming events” – even though viewing the proper events page, I get an accurate and correct list!
Yikes.
So, bottom line, as I’ve said, I guess I’m out of my depth here…. the old copy and paste tricks not working. Client is quite keen (to put it mildly) to have his site working right – so really looking forward to assistance in the next few days. Thanks!