HELP – Chaotic Soul Theme Post Issues

Hello,

I am presently using the ChaoticSoul theme and it is working nicely with one exception. I have added page numbers to the bottom of the main page and when the viewer clicks on page 2 the most recent post populates there again. This same problem was experienced when I had “older and newer posts” links. This is definitely specific to this theme because the page number behave properly when I changed themes to test.

The Index code is:

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">

	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

		<!-- First Post -->
  	<?php $top_query = new WP_Query('showposts=1'); ?>
  	<?php while($top_query->have_posts()) : $top_query->the_post(); $first_post = $post->ID; ?>

			<div class="post top" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
				<h2 class="first"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
				<span class="postmetadata">&bull; <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?> <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '(', ')'); ?></span>

				<div class="entry">
					<?php the_content("<span class=\"continue\">" . __('Continue reading','') . " '" . the_title('', '', false) . "'</span>"); ?>
				</div>
			</div>

		<?php endwhile; ?>

		<!-- Next few posts -->
		<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); if(!($first_post == $post->ID)) : ?>	

			<div class="post lastfive" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
				<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
				<span class="postmetadata">&bull; <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?> <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '(', ')'); ?></span>

				<div class="entry">
					<?php the_content(); ?>
				</div>
			</div>

		<?php endif; endwhile; ?>

	<?php else : ?>

		<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
		<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
		<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

<?php if(function_exists('wp_page_numbers')) { wp_page_numbers(); } ?>

	</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thanks,
Don