I can't seem to find out how to have the home page post listings have the thumbnails show? The images are not loaded but url links and show in the posts but I would like them to show above the listings here:
http://www.galleryprovocateur.org/blog/?page_id=2

see http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=6606

Thank you I tried a lot of the thing in that thread and I guess I just don't understand the terms to search for...I tried doing what this link said to do and all that happened is I ended up with two duplicate thumbnails on the actuals posts but not on the center main page?
http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=6349

see http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=6606 item #5

oops sorry Version 3.4.9
and Wordpress 3.0

Thank you for helping!

thumbnails will only show up in an excerpt unless you insert it manually. The Idea is you could have a large picture in the post, add it's thumbnail to the post thumbnail option, then when looking at an excrpt, you will see the thumbnail and when you link to the full post, you see the full image.

OK I am still a little lost...I see the excerpt area and added this code there:
<a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/best-art-gallery/BestOf?oid=1980438&amp;feature=1989689"><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.galleryprovocateur.org/images/Press/reader2010.jpg" alt="" width="688" height="90" /></a>

but that didn't work and the image doesn't show on the home page....I don't see the thumbnail option you mention?