On the suggestion of Ron, every one of my individual archive pages now has the means to access my five most recent posts directly. It is nothing particularly special, though I did have to steal a small amount of code from his site (sorry) to make it work out, mainly due to my general-purpose incompetence when it comes to complicated HTML. Thanks for the idea, and hopefully it will help drive traffic from the Google-referred pages, on to other pages, and so on, so forth. These are the days I am really, really thankful for programs like MovableType and WordPress and all the rest… writing all of those links myself would be an absolute bear.
I don’t think you “stole” anything. To me finding snippets of CSS or HTML from someones page isn’t stealing. I don’t consider something stealing till you copy the design or graphics.
I think the recent posts will make a difference. Always think about what you want your visitors to do, and make it easy to do.