Page 2 and Home display same posts

Found the problem, but have no idea on the cure.

This line of code appears at the top of the page:

<?php query_posts(“cat=-71”); ?>

When remarked out the Next/Previous works as advertised.

When the code is functional the Next/Previous will always display the same posts that are on the Home page.

Is there a fix?

After contacting one jcornide, who had posted the same problem and received no replies, he was kind enough to email what solution he did find.

After contacting jcornide, I found the solution that he used to solve the problem. This is what he wrote:

Yes, I solved the problem with the page 2. Maybe you are excluding one category in the home of your blog? If yes, you maybe be using something like:
query_posts( “cat=-3”);

Well, I changed that for this:
query_posts( $query_string . “&cat=-3”);

And now works ??

Hope this will help.

The solution I contrieved was a If-Else:

<?php if (!in_category(‘3’)) : ?>
posting code here
<?php else : ?>
<?php endif; ?>

[This code was used on index.php and page.php]

Of the two, I feel jcornide’s solution is far better than mine–less is more in my book.