@jenne:
in case you dont want to show subcats ONLY on home page, then you'll need to replace in includes/functions.php
"sub_cats" => get_subcategories($category_id),
With this:
"sub_cats" => ($cat_id) ? get_subcategories($category_id) : "",
1,2,3 ... after 10 "?" in total, you'll probably add more of them when you'll notice the "private" permission only applys with the categories and "not" within the subs.
I'll add a few of these for jenne myself:
What are you talking about ?????????????????????????? (<- count these)
jenne is not trying to make categories unaccessible, but make the subcategories names not being showed in the categories list...