Only Some Products Showing not all

[gigi]

I have looked around and can't see this addressed and I am sure I need to TURN SOMETHING ON OR OFF... PLEASE HELP - I did find mention of the ACTION IF NO STOCK, but this is correct on mine I am sure.

I have 6 products, category is published, products are published - have looked at all the settings, do not have "no product action no display" set - have stock etc.

The Category only shows 4 items but when I click to the DETAILS it will let me access the other products via the details page navigation, so the products are there. I have not used featured or any other selection.
Also when I link the menu item for category and choose my category, it will not access the category unless I choose top level category, then it is picked up! The items not showing are also ordered to be first as well. It is showing other items, I even deleted one of the items not showing and did it again.

I am just not sure that it is all working correctly before I spend more time working this out!
MANY THANKS FOR ANY HELP - screenshots attached.
Whoops nearly forgot, sorry, I am using Joomla 2.5.6 updated last week and VM 2.0.6

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[jenkinhill]

VM2.0.6 is old.

Are the products assigned to shopper groups at all?

[gigi]

I will check but pretty sure I assigned all shopping to default users.

I had such a lot of trouble to just get this version on the site having to get the hosting provider, siteground, to install. I couldn't do the live update a few days ago, didn't work so now I need to manually address that and hope it all goes well. I had some trouble installing the latest version on another site and went back one version which worked. Do you think that will help, upgrade!
I have used VM before with brilliant results, but it was quite a while ago and this just doesn't seem to be doing what I want.
Thanks for your suggestions.

[jenkinhill]

Best to use the anonymous group for products - ie dont even click in the shopper group box for each product.

On a good host updating using Joomla's extension manager should work just fine, as long as PHP resources are set high enough.