“Next Page »” button not working as expected

the entire code of my index.php is this onde

<?php get_header(); ?>
		<?php $count = 0;?>
		<?php query_posts('showposts=8'); ?>
		<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
			<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
				<div class="onequartercolumn2">

					<?php the_excerpt();?>

					<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" border="0" background="http://www.jogosbaratos.info/wp-content/themes/jogosBaratos/images/comment.png" alt="Comentar/ver comentarios" width="48" height="39">
                      <tr><td align="center" valign="top">

                        <p class="commentnum">
                          <?php comments_number('0', '1', '%'); ?>
                        </p>
                      </td></tr>
			        </table></a> 

				</div>
					<?php
					if($count == 3 ) {
					echo "<div style='clear:both;'></div>";}
					$count = $count+1;
					?>
			<?php endwhile; ?>
			<div id="next"><?php next_posts_link(); ?>
			<?php previous_posts_link(); ?> </div>

		<?php else : ?>
			<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
			<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
		<?php endif; ?>
		<div style='clear:both;'></div>
		<div id="wrapper13">
			<div class="onethirdcolumn">
				<h5>Recent Posts</h5>
					<ul>
				 		<?php get_archives('postbypost',5); ?>
			 		</ul>
			</div>
			<div class="onethirdcolumn">
			<h5>Recent Comments</h5>
			<ul>
				<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/simple_recent_comments.php');?>
				<?php if (function_exists('src_simple_recent_comments')) { src_simple_recent_comments(5, 60, '', ''); } ?>
			</ul>
		</div>
		<div class="onethirdcolumn">
			<h5>Top Categories</h5>
			<ul>
  				<?php wp_list_cats(); ?>
  			</ul>
		</div>
		<div style='clear:both;'></div>
	</div>

</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-10333069-1");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}</script>
</body>
</html>

hope it helps :S

sorry about that, ive posted the code here http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1545123

dont know how to edit my previous post though :s

since i only have 9 posts…that would not help me… i can not test this problem without that line of code

Solved by using the options in wp-admin instead of the code
😀 tks