I find myself in an unusual situation.

Up until now my main page has been a category page. I set this by configuration > layout settings > Main Page - Opens with Category.

I now want the normal main page to appear with the category images there. They aren't appearing, nor is featured products or any of the other product lists. Strange?

I have set: "Categories - Always Show on Main Page" to 1

Whats wrong?

This is the source of the main page drawn by firefox:

<div class="centerColumn" id="indexCategories">
<h1 id="indexCategoriesHeading">SHOP</h1>


<!-- deprecated - to use - uncomment
<div id="" class="content">This is the main define statement for the page for english when no template defined file exists. It is located in: <strong>/includes/languages/english/index.php</strong></div>
-->

<!-- deprecated - to use - uncomment
<div id="" class="content">Define your main Index page copy here.</div>
-->

<div id="indexCategoriesMainContent" class="content"><br>
<br>
Welcome to Cool Global, The Australian Skype Communications Shop.
<br>
<br></div>


<!-- BOF: Display grid of available sub-categories, if any -->
<!-- EOF: Display grid of available sub-categories -->
</div>

Please help.