[EventCalendar] EC on static page interfering w/ other categories

[Jeremy Carlson]

Hi there,

First off, this is a fantastic plugin. Tying into iCal was particularly 
impressive to me.

But of course, give a guy an inch...
Maybe I'm trying to do maybe too many things at once, but:

I have built a static page which is pulling in posts for the 'News' 
category. 'Events' is a sub-category of 'News'. On this page, I want to 
show the events list and calendar, plus recent news.

On the page, I'm pulling in:
1. an events list with ec3_get_events() - this works fine to show 
future events only.
2. a calendar with ec3_get_calendar() - this works fine to show all 
events.
3. Any content posted to the page itself, so I could have a little 
blurb "here's the news, isn't it great". - this, too, works fine; it's 
done w/ a fairly standard WP loop.
4. Then I'm using rewind_posts() and going through the loop again w/ 
query_posts('category_name=News&showposts=5'), and I get odd results.

* If EC3's options are set to 'Events are Normal Posts', I get Event 
posts in the future & all posts in the past.
* If EC3's options are set to 'Keep Events Separate', I only get future 
Event posts, and that's it.

But I WANT to get just all posts in the past, or even just non-event 
posts in the past. Is that possible?

Thanks so much for any assistance,

Jeremy