Pagination just refreshes the homepage

My pagination is using a custom query, I tried to use this fix, but had no success. It seems to refresh the homepage regardless of what number I select in the pagination.

<?php
	$limit = get_option('posts_per_page');
	$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
	$url = (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) ? "https://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] : "https://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

	if ( strstr( $url, "?filter=give" ) )
		$custom_query = new WP_Query('cat=-3,-5,-24&meta_key=status-flag&meta_value=give&showposts=' . $limit=10 . '&paged=' . $paged);
	elseif ( strstr( $url, "?filter=receive" ) )
		$custom_query = new WP_Query('cat=-3,-5,-24&meta_key=status-flag&meta_value=receive&showposts=' . $limit=10 . '&paged=' . $paged);
	else
		$custom_query = new WP_Query('cat=-3,-5,-24&showposts=' . $limit=10 . '&paged=' . $paged);

	$wp_query->is_archive = true; $wp_query->is_home = true;
	?>
	<div class="post-list">
	<?php if ($custom_query->have_posts()) : ?>
		<?php  ?>
		<?php while ($custom_query->have_posts()) : $custom_query->the_post(); ?>
			<div class="post">
				<?php if ( '' != get_the_post_thumbnail() ) { ?>
					<?php $attr = array('class' => 'alignleft'); ?>
					<?php the_post_thumbnail('post-feature-thumbnail', $attr); ?>
				<?php } else { ?>
					<span class="alignleft avatar"><?php echo fullsize_post_author_avatar(); ?></span>
				<?php } ?>
				<div class="post-holder">
					<?php
					$key = 'status-flag';
					$posttype = get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, TRUE);
					?>
					<h2>
					<span class="adtype">
						<?php if ($posttype != "") : ?>
							<?php echo $posttype . ': '; ?>
						<?php endif; ?>
					</span>
					<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
					</h2>
					<span class="note">Posted by <a href="<?php echo bp_core_get_user_domain($post->post_author); ?>"><?php the_author(); ?></a></span>
					<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
				</div>
			</div>
		<?php endwhile; ?>
	</div>
</div>
<?php if(function_exists('wp_paginate')) {
	wp_paginate(false,$custom_query);
} ?>

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