Wordpress loop malfunctioning?

[n0l1m17z]

Alright, i'm in the process of making a wordpress site from a template a hand-coded. I've made a home-page with a custom query to achieve a 'featured' on the mainpage, however, when i make a page called 'blog' from a custom template (called blog.php) 'The Loop' starts acting drunk. The first thing i notice is that after firing of the usual loop while:

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<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

and then i want to display the title as usually, however, this is where it starts getting funny. I feed wp something like:

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<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

But when i load the page, instead of showing the title of my posts it only display one title, and this title is 'blog' (the name of the page).

It seems like i'm missing some basic dynamic in the wp workflow, it doesn't gimmeh any requested content or nothing neither, however, my category, author and tags queries turn up correct for my first blog. My second blog never shows up.

I'm so lost, i'd be better off with a gun than a compass.