Does anyone know whether Exclude Categories can be used on your individual archive template?

What I want is the menu (you know, MTEntryPrevious and MTEntryNext) to exclude a category. I can't get it done and believe me, its frustrating.

Any thoughts?

I don't know if that would work or not.

The only workaround I can think of at the moment is to have links that show next and previous in the entry's category only. That way the entries in the excluded category will only show up in that category. Of course, this limits how much you can navigate among the other categories.

A thread about doing next/previous in category is here