Categories and Blog, repeating read more entries

I really need help,

I was asked to make two different kinds of blogs first one is the standard one that is set by the themes options as a static page and the other second is a “Past” blog but would function through the normal categories. Main issue being their didn’t want the categories from Past to feed into the blog section which has no category but picks up all posts.

To do this I made static pages and remade loops for each category for the past features by using <?php query_posts($query_string . ‘&cat=948,946,944,947,945’); ?> then recreating new loops for each page with each category and making them drop down on the menu.

Example. <?php query_posts($query_string . ‘&cat=948’); ?>

for past dine and etc for drink, events and so on just to show that category .

Now the problem I have I added <?php query_posts(“cat=-948,-946,-944,-947,-945”); ?> to the main blog to not pick up the categories and it broke the reload more ajax pagination on the bottom of the page and filling it in with the first 12 again and repeating. Also on the new pages on past features the ajax / read more won’t show on the bottom of the page.

I hope this is understable, thanks in advice for anyone willing to help!