Thank you for this. Both of these issues are now resolved.
I am now having a problem, that I have not been able to resolve in my other site either.
If you click an item in the right module, it takes you to the product page. However the content (latest items) of the right col. is not showing on that page. It seems to me, that this is because I have not navigated to it from a main site link, but I am not sure if this is logical, and have no idea how to resolve it. Iasked on purity11 website, but they referred me back to you.