Theme not working when took Online

I have been working on a wordpress site, and testing it at home on my machine locally using MAMP, now when I uploaded the site, the loops will not work any more. I have the jquery cycle plugin at the top of the page that should show posts with the category ID of featured

<?php
							$featured = new WP_Query();
							$featured ->query();
							while($featured->have_posts()) : $featured->the_post();

								$wp_query->in_the_loop=true;
								$featured_ID = $post->ID;

						?>

					<?php if(in_category('3')) { ?>

					<?php if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'large_preview', true)) { ?>

						<div class="indF">

							<img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'large_preview', true); ?>" alt="Featured Post" />

							<?php } ?>

							<div class="featuredTitle"><!-- Title and Transparent Box -->

								<p class="date"><?php the_time('M d'); ?></p>

								<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>

								<p><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>

								<p class="meta">Written by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></p>

							</div>

						</div><!-- END FEATURED IND -->

                                                        <?php } ?>

							<?php endwhile; ?>

For some reason the cylce is working, but it shows that there is like 6 other posts as well, and I only have one Post at all.

This all worked great on my machine locally, I am not sure why it would work there and not online. Any thoughts ???