Thank you Esmi! That works perfectly! Thank you again!!!!
MichealH Thank you so much!!!! Works perfectly!!! Saved me from an xmas of scratching my head. Thank you for your help and happy holidays to you!!!!!!!!
<?php $top_query = new WP_Query('showposts=YYY&cat=XXX'); ?>
That should do it. XXX being either the category name or number, bit extra in there is showposts=YYY (replace YYY with number) which you can limit the amount of posts you want. Just delete that out if you want all of them.