Steve - I purchased the Jxtended tag component you mentioned and it works great as far as being able to tag my articles to multiple categories. It even allows me to create a menu item for a specific tag.

The problem I'm having now is the same one I am experiencing with all of the solutions for multilple category/sections. I cannot get the content to appear on my homepage. I created a tag called "news" but now I cannot select that tag in the modules area in order to display a specific tag in a specific area.

I am using a module called nice frontpage but that module (like all of the others) will only allow me to select specific sections and categories.

How do I resolve this?