title: Magento newsletter subscribe does not display success or error messages
body: <p>I'm trying to put a newsletter subscription in the footer of a new site, I have it displaying and posting but:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>it does not redirect to a success page </li>
  <li>it does send the confirmation notice</li>
  <li>unverified subscribers do show up in the admin</li>
  <li>clicking on the verification link in the email just goes to the magento home page but does confirm the subscription. </li>
  <li>switching the theme back to default works [notices and success url work]</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I'm placing the form in the footer using local.xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;reference name="footer"&gt;
       &lt;block 
            type="newsletter/subscribe"
            name="newsletter" 
            template="newsletter/subscribe.phtml"/&gt;
  &lt;/reference&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The actual form is the default magento newsletter form with no changes. </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>How do I get it to show success &amp; error messages on both subscription attempts AND on mail confirmation? </p></li>
  <li><p>How do I get the confirmation link [in the email] to go to another page in magento other than the home page i.e. a success page or error page? </p></li>
  </ol>