GamerEdie, you are a genius! I've been looking for a fix for this for a couple weeks. And, btw, this is the only time I've ever actually found a solution on this forum.
For anyone still with questions, here's the codes I used:
<div id="nextprevious">
<div class="alignleft"><?php posts_nav_link('','','« PREVIOUS ENTRIES') ?></div>
<div class="alignright"><?php posts_nav_link('','NEXT ENTRIES »','') ?></div>
</div>
this goes right above your </div></div> <!-- Closes Content -->
in your INDEX.php file
Now, in order to get the previous/next links to bring up previous, next correctly (in pages, not just the same front page) you need to add GamerEdie's code above which I cut and pasted here again to make it easy:
<?php
if (is_home()) {
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts("cat=-3&paged=$paged");
}
?>
Make note! see where it says "cat=-3 ??? that -3 means you are telling it NOT to bring up cat 3. If you want to replace that number replace it. If you need to hide other cat's just add a coma, minus sign and the next number (i.e. ("cat=-560,-4,-43&paged=$paged") )
Also note, the above code replaces the is home thingy in your index.php file that is there already, IF this isn't already the code in there.
Thanks to everyone for continuing to post on this question! I'm sure you've all helped a lot of people (I'm just one of them)