Ideally there would be a limit parameter for the Shortcode….right now there isn’t. I am planning a “stable production” release of CataBlog 1.3 for the summer (vacation!) and this feature is slated to be in there….so keep your fingers crossed and you should have any easy way to limit the number of results per page.
In the meantime you may create a second or third set of categories for the page that is displaying to long. For instance, if you added a category of “page1” to the first 10 items and “page2” to the next 10 items you could easily create two pages in WordPress and filter your catalog by page1 and page2 on their respective pages. These categories would be in addition to your current catalog categories.
I hope that was helpful, let me know what you do and good luck.