Title won't display in created node

I am trying to get the title to display only on pages in one content type. I have the typical "Page" and "Story" content types and have added a custom content type called "News" with the system name "news". I want the title to display only on nodes with the "News" content type. Since this is a relatively static site, I created my own page.tpl.php using the variables here: http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules--system--page.tpl.php/6. If you need a copy of my page.tpl.php, please let me know and I'll send it to you. I did not use one of the themes that come with Drupal, I made my own. Oh.. I have the Path module set up so that any News content types go under news/[title-raw].

Basically, my problem is this: On the main pages of the website I have it set so that the right sidebar has a teaser of the most recent News post and a link that says "Read More" (made within Views - this is a block). The "Read More" link goes to a page with the full article. The full article is displayed as follows (again, set up as a Page in views):

<h2>Title</h2>
Date Posted (displayed as M. j, Y)
Body

Then in the right sidebar of this page (and all news pages), I have links to the older News posts. The links go to the actual node. Within this node, I want to display the title and the date posted, but it is only displaying the body of the News post.

I used to have the News section set up as a blog using the default Blog module in Drupal but I got so frustrated with the things I couldn't control within it that I recreated everything in the "News" content type. Unfortunately, I still can't figure this out. I'm sure it's something I'm missing, but I just don't know what.

I have the following modules installed and enabled (some of these probably aren't affecting this, but I'm posting anyway in case they might be the cause of the problem): Views, Custom Search Box, Imagemenu, Pathauto, Token, Advanced Help.

Things I've tried: Creating a node-news.tpl.php with this <?php print $title; ?> above the content area (which is where I want the node title displayed).
I also tried just creating a node.tpl.php with the above code and with this:

 <?php if ($page): ?>
  <h2><a href="<?php print $node_url ?>" title="<?php print $title ?>"><?php print $title ?></a></h2>
<?php endif; ?> 

Nothing seems to work. I've searched the forums for almost three whole days now trying to figure this out and I just don't know what I'm doing wrong or what I'm missing. Any help would be greatly appreciated! If you need more info or need a copy of my code, please let me know. Oh - I haven't even attempted to get the "Posted Date" to work yet, so if you could enlighten me on how to do this within any "News" content types, that would be fantastic!