no child menu items under home page link.

I have this issue as well. My nav structure looks something like

• home
  • About
  • Contributors
• Contact
  • Help
  • Advertising
  • Search

When on Contact or it's sub pages, the menu block appears. If I am on a sub page of home, the menu block appears. It only seems to not work as expected when on the home page.
My block is configured as follows:
Menu: Main menu
Starting Level: second level (if I set to 1st level, the menu block shows only the current level, includes home)
Make the starting level follow the active menu item. checked
Starting level will be: Active menu item
Maximum Depth: 1
Expand all children: checked
Fixed parent item:

What the desired effect is: When I am on the top level or any child of that top level, I want the Menu block to show the second level for that active menu trail.

Again, works as expected for everything except the home link. Maybe I should just work around by creating a special case for the home menu and it's children and show only on the home page.

Ok, just a report back. I created a second block, made it visible only on the . Settings are as follows:
Starting level: 1st primary
Make the starting level follow the active menu item.: checked
Starting level will be: Children of active
Max Depth: 2
Expand all children of this tree:checked
Fixed parent item: -Home (which is the first child of )

This is working for the case stated in #1. However, I am attempting to use this module in conjunction with Menu Mini Panels, and in one of my panels, I have a Menu block which is supposed to show the children of the menu item. Right now it shows nothing. I am trying to avoid creating 4 or 5 different Menu Blocks that are static, rather, I would like 1 dynamic menu block that is aware of the parent. Honestly, I may run out of time and just create a bunch of Menu Blocks.

Great module BTW :)

Sorry for not responding sooner!