Exclude Catagory From Homepage? Nothing Has Worked.

Trying to exclude certain categories from the homepage. Now BlogHue’s awesome code worked fine, but then they added in another index for a new section on my site, and it doesn’t work anymore.. And they can’t fix it.. And somehow I have 2 indexes..

So I’m looking at the Index loop now: (This is what I want to do) I’m assuming it will work? Since the functions.php version didn’t.

Indexes

<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts('posts_per_page=10&paged='.$paged);
?>
<?php $i=1; if (have_posts()) : ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<li>
<?php if($i==1){ ?>

<div class="PRIVATE">

<?php $i++; } else { ?>

<div class="PRIVATE">

<?php $i=1; } ?>

<span><?php the_category(', ') ?></span>[/quote]And the other index file:

[quote]
<?php $i=1; if (have_posts()) : ?>

<?php $category_id = get_cat_ID( 'Weight Loss' ); //echo $category_id ; ?>
<?php

$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts("paged=$paged&cat=".$category_id);

wp_pagenavi();

?>

<div class="clear"></div>

</div>

<!-- PRIVATE -->

<!-- PRIVATE -->

<div class="PRIVATE">

<ul>
<?php $category_id = get_cat_ID( 'Weight Loss' ); //echo $category_id ; ?>
<?php

$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts("paged=$paged&cat=".$category_id); ?>

<?php $i=1;

while(have_posts()): the_post();

?>

<?php if(($i==1)||($i==2)){ ?>

<li class="<?php if($i%3==0){ echo "nopad2"; }else { echo ""; } ?>">
<span>$<?php $mykey_values = get_post_custom_values('price'); ?><?php if($mykey_values[0]!=NULL){ ?><?php echo $mykey_values[0]; ?><?php } else { ?>1,849<?php } ?></span>

<h4><?php echo substr(get_the_title(), 0,35); ?></h4>

<div class="new <?php echo $i; ?>">

<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { the_post_thumbnail(); } ?>

</div>

[/quote]</ul>
</li>