I think you have a bad template based on what you said. Not knowing your circumstances, I'd rather just get you a template that works.
Use my template generator
http://www.ashworthconsulting.com/rsse_template_generator/Basically just put your AdSense publisherID and channel in the fields, and hit submit. After that, you are taken to a page with all the template code you need. To re-generate with another color, just hit refresh

The pages SHOULD interlink, and I think that part got purged from your template somehow. Mine have it though. This happens at the bottom of the RSS output on each page generated.