I liked the page design of my php-based home page, and didn't want to roll it into Moveable type. But I wanted a list of articles to appear, and update automatically as I add entries. Taking a cue from this tip on the Moveable Type support forum:
" Show related content from a blog on another's page",
in my blog, I created a New Archive Template on the template screen named "Category Links" with this in it:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="MT2blog/styles.css" type="text/css" /> 
<div class="categoryLinks">
 <MTArchiveList archive_type="Category"> 
<$MTArchiveTitle$><br /> 
<MTEntries> 
<a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>"><$MTEntryTitle$></a><br /> 
</MTEntries> 
</MTArchiveList> 
  </div>
        

In the Weblog Config under Archiving, I checked Category and selected Category Archive (this lists all the entries by category).
In the Archive Filename line next to this new line, I added:

 

 

allcategory_links.html

This will be the name of the file generated by this archiving method - "allcategory_links.html". On my home page, I added this "include" to pick up that generated page:

<?$filename="/home/server/path/to/my/MTarchives/folder/allcategory_links.html";if (file_exists($filename)) { include($filename);}?>

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