query_posts for year and category, how to keep it dynamic?

thanks, that looks good. but:
where would i have to put the code? into categery-news.php ?
if so, what would be the best way to tell the loop, which is the year to display the posts from?

ok, but what about the second question..?

..and what about getting the past years as menupoints? how can i set them up properly, in order to get the template file working nicely?

Thank you! The category-based-archives-plugin seems to be a good solution. But there’s almost no documentation about it. Only the few template functions are explained.

This http://mydomain.com/2008/in-category-slug/ doesn’t work out of the box. Do I have to change my permalinks-structure? I have /%category%/%postname%, which I really need to keep in fact.

ok, thank you.

although i doubt that the author will be interested, as he stated on his homepage that he won’t do any webdevelopment anymore, it might somebody else out there to give a hint here. it’d be very much appreciated!