Ok.. the only other options I can suggest are to try a module that will let you inject a copy of another module for display purposes, even across portals in the same instance. Innventua do a Showdow Module and some other moduels do it as a side-feature - ZLDNN Module Wrapper, Mandeeps CSS Tabs etc.
Or you could use RSS features to display posts from a blog that is not installed on the homepage.
Or you could use a different module such as Ventrian News Articles that does allow you to reference a source module on another page.
And that's me out of suggestions.
Rob