Victory!

I am no longer humiliated by my lack of archives! They exist and the links actually work!
For the record, I found the solution at blogtech. I was a little confused initially because some posts exist both on my front page and in my archives, even though I'd specified that I only wanted 7 days' worth of posts on my front page. What I wasn't getting was that means 7 posting days' worth of posts, so if I skip a day, that day doesn't get counted. (And I do skip a day now and then...) Woohoo!
I also added my e-mail address to the signatures of all the posts, and I think the Home link even works!

I feel like a bonafide computer scientist. Like an implementation coordinator... Like a... well, okay, mostly like I've upgraded back to Blogs for Dummies. :)