Pagination and Set Current Page Link

Hey All –

I am struggling with something that seams like it should be very easy – and is not. I a using a plugin for pagination (wp_paginate) and when I add it, it shows the pagination links and does not advance the active page marker in the pagination nav or the posts. So for all pages it shows page 1.

I found some code to add the current URL to the end of the page and get it to work, but it seems like a long way to go for getting and appending the page number to the post.

Here is the function I am using in functions.php:

function get_current_page() {
 $pageURL = 'http';
 //check what if its secure or not
 if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {
 $pageURL .= "s";
 }
 //add the protocol
 $pageURL .= "://";
 //check what port we are on
 if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
 $pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
 } else {
 $pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
 }
 //cut off everything on the URL except the last 3 characters
 $urlEnd = substr($pageURL, -3);
 //strip off the two forward shashes
 $page = str_replace("/", "", $urlEnd);
 //return just the number
 return $page;
 }

And here is what I am using on the page to display the link:

query_posts('cat=4&paged='.get_current_page());

If anyone has an idea on how to easily get the page number without using the function I listed above or how this could be easier – please-o-please let me know!

Thanks in Advance!
Chris