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that has nothing to do with what I want.

It has everything to do with what you want. You are interested in the <!--more--> tag. This is what breaks the post so that only an excerpt is shown on the home page.

No, that does not work. I just want the title or the excerpt to show on this category archive page. That doesn’t work. I’ve tried it.

Replacing the_content with the_excerpt works too.

If you only want to do this for one category, you might have a look at Category_Templates as well.

That was my problem. I changed the_content to the_excerpt in my index page, and that changed it everywhere, but I wanted it as the_content on the front page. Is there an easy way to just list the titles of each post in a certain category?

Ok, I think I follow now. Your theme apparently uses index.php for many scenarios? this would be good to glance over then: Template_Hierarchy

Here’s what I’d try:
Change your theme’s index.php back to using the_content.
Create an archive.php page as a copy of index.php, and change the_content to the_excerpt.

Thanks! That was exactly what I needed. If I just want the titles of the posts, what would I put?

Well, in that case you probably want to just completely remove the_content or the_excerpt (along with, presumably, whatever <div> tags wrap ’em in your theme)