Well it looks like this is a general issue for a few plugins. Guess it has to do with the blog not being set up on the home page. It’s like the Posts Page is not being recognized as a page.
I was able to work around it by creating a sidebar custom menu for pages instead of using the pages widget. Then I just used the following css code to hide the menu on the Posts Page:
.blog .menu-sidebar-menu-container {display: none; }
Not as elegant as checking a box and turning it off for that page but it worked and I’m done spending hours figuring this puppy out. If there is a fix for this or I missed something, be nice and post it for the next person with this issue.