Hi all - three questions

i have modified my blog to use createDate and updateDate as its primary date indentifier. This way i can get users to use liveWriter to publish, and not need to go into the umbraco backend. I am now trying to modify the "recent posts" xslt to reflect a sort on the createDate, but whatever i try does not seem to work. Here is the XSLT:
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What am I missing?

Question 2: Is it possible to change the createdate somehow?

Question 3: I cannot for the life of me remeber how to view the page XML remotely (i.e not by looking at umbraco.config) so that I can see how the sorting is being done (I am not referring to ?umbDebugShowTrace=true)

Thanks
Andrew