It Works!! It Works!!
Touch wood, my archives really work, at last!!
This is what I did, just incase you're interested, if youre not, tough. A couple of months back I created a new blog which I don't use so that I would have the archive template. There was a little problem, new blogger doesn't need an archive template. Any way I've been fiddling a lot and today I suddenly had the brilliant idea of putting the piece of archive template from the new main blog onto the old. It seems to have worked. Needless to say I carefully copied everything onto word just incase. I feel quite professional here.