Pagination Issues

Hi folks!

I'm having an issue where pagination does not seem to be working with phpns 2.3.2_patch2. Specifically, I have the following set up:
<code>
<?php
 $phpns['items_per_page'] = '5';
 include("shownews.php");
?>
</code>
The result is that five articles show up, but the Previous and Next links at the bottom of the page link to #, meaning only 5 articles are available (see http://hedrickacres.org/news.php).

I am about 99.999% sure this is a configuration error that can easily be solved, but for the life of me I can't figure it out. Any guidance woudl be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Josh