Super Loop modifications

Whilst trying to find a soloution for excluding specific categories form the main loop on index.php I stumbled across this page http://perishablepress.com/super-loop-exclude-specific-categories-and-display-any-number-of-posts/#comments

I’ve used the code there to and adapted it slightly and the code works well and excludes any post with a category id of 8. The only issue I’ve found is that setting the page to display 10 posts is fine, but as I have 9 posts from the excluded category on my first page I only have one post actually display.

I’ve looked and tried to modify the loop myself to prevent it from incimenting $count if the post is from category 8 but to no avail.

Hopefully someone on here might be able to help me with this. This is the code I’m using.

<?php
/**
 * The main template file.
 *
 * This is the most generic template file in a WordPress theme
 * and one of the two required files for a theme (the other being style.css).
 * It is used to display a page when nothing more specific matches a query.
 * E.g., it puts together the home page when no home.php file exists.
 * Learn more: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Bare
 * @since Bare 1.0
 */

get_header(); ?>

		<h1>index.php</h1>

<?php get_sidebar();

if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

static $count = 0;
if ($count == "10") { break; }
else { 

if ( in_category('8') ) continue; ?>

<div class="post">
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>

<?php $count++; }
endwhile;
endif; ?>

<div class="navigation"><p><?php posts_nav_link('∞','&laquo;&laquo; Go Forward
In Time','Go Back in Time &raquo;&raquo;'); ?></p></div>

  <?php get_footer('footer'); ?>

I’ve tried lots of different things including
if ( in_category('8') ) $count-1; continue;

<div class="post">
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php $count++; ?>
</div>

<?php  }

I’m not used to coding php if statments in this format so I think thats where part of my confusion is coming from, but when I tried to convert it to an if () { } else {} style stament and ending up breaking the code completly hence I’ve left things unchanged atm.