Problem with rendering partials of a collection

Hi,

I am trying to render a collection of blog entries.

First, in my page that will include the partial renders, I have a render_component which will call an action to generate the collection:

          <%=render_component :controller => 'entries', :action => 'recentEntries'%>

In the EntriesController's recentEntries method, the collection is generated and a call to render is made, as follows
          render :partial=>'recentEntry',:collection=>@entries

Here are the contents of the _recentEntry.rhtml partial render file:
          <tr>
              <td>
                  <%= link_to recentEntry.title, :controller=>'entries', :action => 'show', :id => recentEntry.id %> by
                  <%= link_to recentEntry.blog.user.id, :controller=>'users', :action => 'show', :id => recentEntry.blog.user %>
              </td>
          </tr>

Everything works perfectly EXCEPT for some reason, the id of every recentEntry element will be exactly the same as the very first recentEntry in the collection. If I change from " :id=>recentEntry.id" to ":id=>recentEntry.title" it works perfectly fine, which is really bewildering to me. I hope someone could shed some light on this..thanks a lot!!