I seem to have that problem as well. The recent news block just disappears if I try to change the default settings. I think i had this problem in earlier versions of News as well but for some reason it worked. But now I've updated the module to 1.44 and the problem has reoccured. The only way to make the block reappear for is to update the news module in the admin panel, which brings every news related block back to their default settings, so it doesn't help. I also upgraded to 2.0.13.2 and that didn't help either.

edit: i tried increasing the title length bit by bit and it seems to work... weird.

thank you. putting the code in one line solved the problem. i was going to try that if no one answered.

i use the news 1.1 module to post articles and for some reason when i insert a table (using html code) into an article, the finished article will display with a huge gap on top of the table. i use internet explorer 6 to look at the articles. i tried to view the source with internet explorer and it doesn't show a lot of line breaks in the code. here's the url to that particular article: http://dhost.info/tonyj/xoops/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6

does anyone know how to solve this? thanks in advance.