Skip a Category in Category Tree part 2, Using Flyout Menus

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Hello, I posted once before about skipping a category (please view my previous thread for more information if you want every step I made creating the custom field etc. here http://extranet.mivamerchant.com/for...561#post408561) in the category tree and I was helped successfully before and I'm hoping all the other mivites can help me with this mystery.

I'm working on a mm5 store and I'm trying to figure out how keep a category active, but NOT have the category name appear in the category tree (in the Array). I'm using flyout menus with the toolkit module; this was working before I implemented the flyout menus using the following code originally:

<div id="category-tree">
<mvt:foreach array="cattree_categories" iterator="cattree_category">
        <mvt:if expr="NOT ISNULL l.settings:category:id AND l.settings:category:id EQ l.settings:cattree_category:id">
        <div class="level-&mvte:cattree_category:level; active">
        <mvt:elseif expr="NOT ISNULL g.Category_Code AND ISNULL  l.settings:category:id AND l.settings:cattree_category:code EQ  g.Category_Code">    
        <div class="level-&mvte:cattree_category:level; active">
        <mvt:else>
        <div class="level-&mvte:cattree_category:level;">
        </mvt:if>
        [B]<mvt:if expr="ISNULL l.settings:cattree_category:customfield_values:customfields:skip_category">[/B]             
            <a href="&mvte:cattree_category:link;">
            <mvt:if expr="l.settings:cattree_category:image">
            <img src="&mvte:cattree_category:image;" alt="&mvte:cattree_category:name;" />
            <mvt:else>
            >> &mvte:cattree_category:name;
            </a>
            [B]</mvt:if> [/B] 
       </mvt:if>              
    </div>
</mvt:foreach>
</div>

I used the same expression/conditional when I started using the flyout menus, here's what I used below:

<div id="category-tree">
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="parentcat|pccount" />
    <ul class="dropdown flyout">
        <mvt:foreach iterator="parent_category" array="parent_categories"> 
            [B]<mvt:if expr="ISNULL l.settings:cattree_category:customfield_values:customfields:skip_category"> [/B]        
                <li><a href="/category/&mvte:parent_category:code;.html" title="&mvte:parent_category:name;">>>&mvte:parent_category:name;</a>        
                <mvt:item name="toolkit" param="subcat|ccount|l.all_settings:parent_category:code" />            
                <mvt:if expr="ccount GT 0">
                    <ul class="sub-menu">
                        <mvt:foreach iterator="sub_category" array="sub_categories">
                            <li><a href="/category/&mvte:sub_category:code;.html" title="&mvte:sub_category:name;">>>&mvte:sub_category:name;</a>
                                <mvt:item name="toolkit" param="subcat2|ccount2|l.all_settings:sub_category:code" />
                                <mvt:if expr="ccount2 GT 0">
                                    <ul>
                                        <mvt:foreach iterator="sub_category2" array="sub_categories2">
                                            <li><a href="/category/&mvte:sub_category2:code;.html" title="&mvte:sub_category2:name;">>>&mvte:sub_category2:name;</a></li>
                                        </mvt:foreach>
                                    </ul>
                                </mvt:if>
                            </li>
                        </mvt:foreach>
                    </ul>
                </mvt:if>
            </li>
            [B]</mvt:if>[/B]
        </mvt:foreach>
    </ul>
</div>

I also changed this line <mvt:if expr="ISNULL l.settings:cattree_category:customfield_values:cus tomfields:skip_category">

to this following line and it didn't work unfortunatley:
<mvt:if expr="ISNULL l.settings:parent_category:customfield_values:cust omfields:skip_category">

Please let me know if you have any suggestions . . . any help would be much appreciated : )

Thanks!
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