First post not showing

Hey Guys

I am running the Mimbo3.0 theme with feature content gallery plugin. And i want the post to display from the category “articles” but the first post is always hidden, I try to tweek the if statements, but it would crash if i do anything but the current code. any ideas why?
for sheimagazine.com

<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) { ?>
<div id="content">
 <?php
	$postCount = 0;
	$page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
      query_posts( 'paged=$page&post_per_page=-1&category_name=Articles&showposts=5');
// change from $query_posts( 'paged=$page&post_per_page=-1&cat=' . get_query_var('cat')
	while (have_posts()) { the_post();

if( $postcount == 0 ) {

		//GETS LATEST OR STICKY POST
	?>
<div id="fcg"><?php include (ABSPATH . '/wp-content/plugins/featured-content-gallery/gallery.php'); ?></div>

	        <!--END LEAD/STICKY POST-->

		<div id="more-posts">
		<h3><?php _e('Recent Posts','Mimbo'); ?></h3>

		<?php
}
		if( $postcount > 0 && $postcount <= 4 ) {
		//GETS NEXT FOUR EXCERPTS
		?>

		<div class="clearfloat recent-excerpts">
			<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
<?php echo get_post_image (get_the_id(), '', '', '' .get_bloginfo('template_url') .'/scripts/timthumb.php?zc=1&w=105&h=85&src='); ?></a>

<h4><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a> <span class="commentcount">(<?php comments_popup_link('0', '1', '%'); ?>)</span></h4>

<p class="date"><?php the_time('n/d/y'); ?> &bull; </p>
			<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
		</div>

<?php //GETS NEXT HEADLINES
		}
		else {
			ob_start();
			echo '<li><a href="';
			the_permalink();
			echo '">';
			the_title();
			echo '</a></li>';
			$links[] = ob_get_contents();
			ob_end_clean();
		}
		$postcount ++;
		}
	}
	else {
?>

<?php } ?>

<?php
	if(count($links)): ?>

	 <h3><?php _e('Older Posts','Mimbo'); ?></h3>
	 <ul class="headlines"><?php echo join("\n", $links); ?></ul>

	<?php endif; ?>
	</div><!--END RECENT/OLDER POSTS-->
<div id="featured-cats">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Mimbo Sidebar 2') ) : ?><?php endif; ?>
</div>

</div><!--END CONTENT-->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thanks.