Dan LaSota

I experimented with some things and finally settled on this code fragment just before The Loop on the page:

<?php
if ($paged>1) {
	$offsetAmt = ($paged-1) * 5;
	}
else {
	$offsetAmt = 0;
	};
$queryStr = 'category_name=catName'.'&paged=' . $paged . '&offset=' . $offsetAmt;
query_posts($queryStr);
?>

Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction.

That did not quite do it.
I need it to skip ahead in the loop so that the next page contains the next batch of posts. The code above still displays the first 1-5 posts on each page.

doh!

Thanks!