‘Show Categories’ in WP1.5

Hi! I searched and couldn’t find any information about this; I apologize if this has been posted before. I am running WordPress 1.5, and trying to use Kitten’s ‘Show Categories’ plugin in order to hide a category of posts from the front page, so I can make a sideblog type thingy.

The documentation says to replace

<?php if ($posts) : foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>

with

<?php hide_category_posts( 'category=1' ); ?>

<?php if ($hcp_posts) : foreach ($hcp_posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>

I can’t seem to find the <?php if ($posts) : foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?> part in index.php in my theme template — it seems that 1.5 passes it differently than 1.2 did. Is there a way to use the plugin with 1.5, am I just missing the code, or do I just need to hope/wait for a new version that works with 1.5?

Thanks in advance for your help!