News not displaying, please help someone below dummy IQ

Hi I hope someone can help me.  I installed CuteNews 2.0 and I can't get the news to display.

I'm using the file temp.php in my root directory (/home/mysite/public_html/cnews/temp.php) to experiment on, with the code:

<?php

    $number = 5;
    $template = "default)";
    include("/home/mysite/public_html/cnews/show_news.php");

?>

and all that displays is the line "Powered by CuteNews"

The example.php does display the news.

I don't understand the  $static_path = '/index.php'; parameter, I tried adding,  $static_path = '/temp.php'; but that didn't help.

Could anyone help me?

Thanks!