fok4201 on "Widgets only show on Homepage"

Hi. I hate to appear dumb, but I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "widget areas". I went to Appearance>Widgets and I have tons of available widgets, and I have about 5 that I have on my homepage: Facebook interface, text, I put an amazon shopping logo so the school families could shop via amazon and the school gets a %, but my problem is that these will only show up on my homepage and not on any other page. Same thing with the custom menu widget I put on the left sidebar of my homepage...but it doesn't show on any other page.
I'm sure you can tell what a novice I am and my head is spinning! lol