I am trying to display most top category links in the top navigation bar but hide 5 of them. Then in my left hand navigation box display (Better Categories) I want to hide the opposite categories.

Please look at my template here: http://www.lasilhouettelingerie.com/...age=2&sort=20a

My main categories are:
Pleasure Objects, Hosiery, Accessories, Clothing, Lingerie, Swimwear, Sale, Shop by Category, Shop by Designer, Shop by Price, Shop by Color, Shop by Size

On the top menu I want to hide all "shop by" menu items. Meaning my top category display would only show:
Pleasure Objects, Hosiery, Accessories, Clothing, Lingerie, Swimwear, Sale

On the left hand navigation block I want to display only these other 5 main categories:
Shop by Category, Shop by Designer, Shop by Price, Shop by Color, Shop by Size

I tried to install a module called: Hidden Categories (even though it was for version 1.3.9) to hide aspects of one of these menus, but it ran into difficulty with merging since this shared many of my files with my other plugins. Like: Ultimate SEO's, FEC, and My template files. There were too many files to merge and my PHP was getting jumbled. (I don't know much about PHP to begin with).

Any ideas?