Archives will not show all posts

My archives will not show “all” my posts. If I set showposts=200 it doesn’t show any posts at all. If I set it at 133 or less though, it shows the number specified. I have tried showposts=-1 which gives me nothing, I have tried combining cat=1,2… to make it show more which worked to get it to show a little over 200. But I have 400+ posts I want to show on this page, and it will not show them all with any code I have tried. Any ideas? The code I am using is below.

<dl class="entryList">
<?php query_posts('showposts=200');
if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<dt><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="asideBlock date">
<?php echo date('F jS, Y', strtotime($post->post_date)); ?>
<!-- /.asideBlock --></div>
<?php the_excerpt() ?>
</dd>
<?php endwhile; endif; wp_reset_query(); ?></dl>
</div>

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