Thanks for the comments! I hadn’t even got to reading about the “diary” yet (just dived in, trying things, rather than reading stuff), but seeing it, I figured it was a convenient place to keep notes for myself about what I do and learn along the way. Little did I know I’d get helpful feedback!

As for how to do the pool correctly (thanks for the details, Zartbitter), I’ll try it out sometime, but on this occasion it appears another has fixed my muddle for me (thank you, zors1843).

Thanks again for smoothing out my learning curve. I must say, my first impression of Potlatch is quite good, despite my problems which are more me than it.