Hey MT Geniuses of the world! I have a dilemma. I have categories arranged like this

parent
sub 1
sub 2
parent 2
sub 3
sub 4
Want to hide parent 3
want to hide sub 3
want to hide sub 4

I want to hide a category AND it's subcategories. I tried the filter categories plug it and it effectively hides the parent, but not the sub categories. Any ideas?

did u find a way round this? i have a similar prob

well, sort of. I dumped the category list into an array then used php to exclude from a list in another array. Dirty, but it works... and cached it's not such a big deal.