Cat title showing when it shouldn’t

Hehe…. don’t have any thing posted in it. Maybe I’ll get to it tonight, hopefully. How did I fix it? In index.php, right after I set my $cat=-2; I set a flag that I check for later…. Let me dig out the code…..
Right after $blog=1; I have the following….
$show_cat = true;
if (empty($HTTP_POST_VARS['cat'])) {
if (empty($HTTP_GET_VARS['cat'])) {
$cat=-2;
$show_cat = false;
}
}
$show_cate = true is the default, that will determine if the category name gets displayed or not.
The next IF statements check to see if cat was passed in on the querystring (if the cat was clicked on) if it IS NOT found, then I set $cat = -2 and set $show_cat = false.
Then my <title> tag looks like this:
<title><?php bloginfo('name') ?><?php single_post_title(' :: ') ?><?php if (!$show_cat)
{
echo "";
}else{
single_cat_title(' :: ');
} ?><?php single_month_title(' :: ') ?></title>

If $show_cat is false, then I don’t print a cat title. if it is true, then the tile get the cat name.
Simple, really. I know why the flaw happens. Some where in one of the many includes of blog.header.php and links.php, the $cat is turned into its absolute value. So, by the time single_cat_title() is called, $cat is 2 and returns the category name for cat 2, even though it’s on the front page, where everything BUT cat 2 is displayed.
TG