Can't get archives working...help?

I really love this theme and it's allowing me to customize wordpress to my heart's desire. The one thing I can't get working is the archives. I go to the archives settings and enter the id (2) of a blank page I have created, but when I link to that page, all I get is a blank page. How do I get this to work?

Also, if I want to create 2 different archive pages with 2 different layouts, how would I do that? I want one to be an archive of all posts in the "news" category, and another that is an archive of posts in all other categories.