I asked this in a different thread of mine, but it was regarding a topic about the drop down menu. What I want to know is, if I'm trying to use wordpress as a site, not necessarily a blog, can I use the categories as pages that won't show up on the blog portion? Meaning, if I want more pages than the ones that naturally fit in the menu, can I use the categories and not have them show on the front page or blog format? I guess in Drupal, this would be like taxonomy, or in joomla a second nav with sections? I don't know if this is something that is possible, or if there is a plugin available.
They show up automatically in your menu because the theme designer has used the wp_list_pages tag. Remove that and hardcode what pages you want in the menu...