Avoiding Duplicate Posts Query Issue

Hi all,

I’m having a problem avoiding duplicate posts. It seems that my second query accounts for the post it’s avoiding. So what’s happening is that if i query showposts=4, it only show 3! Very annoying.

Any ideas how i can fix this? Or another way of avoiding dups?

‘<div class=”entry”>

<?php query_posts(‘cat=3,4,5&showposts=1’); $ids = array(); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php $ids[] = get_the_ID(); ?>
<div class=”date”><?php the_date();?></div>

<h1>“><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<div class=”author”>
<?php if ( is_category(‘creative’)) { echo ‘<div class=”creative”></div>’; } ?>
<!–Posted by <?php the_author(); ?>–>
</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else : ?>

<p>Sorry, we are working on new posts as we speak! :)</p>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

<?php
query_posts(“showposts=4&cat=3,4,5,6”);
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
if (!in_array($post->ID, $ids)) { ?>
<h3>“><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
<?php }
endwhile; ?>’