Wordpress Themes - WP Forum at BFA - [SOLVED] pagination doesn't work anymore

Hello,

some time before I did some editing in my blog: I wanted to have a home-page with an introducting text and a specific category of articles after it. I tried some plugins, but it doesn't work well.
With the help from some board (don't know anymore...) I got to edit the theme like this:
I did a copy of the index.php and renamed it to blog.php
I edited the index.php and at the end, right before

Code:

<?php get_footer(); ?>

I wrote:

Code:

<?php

$blog= c2c_get_custom('blog');



if ($blog!= '') {



// Which page of the blog are we on?

$paged = get_query_var('paged');

query_posts('showposts=6&'.$blog.'&ec3_after=2000-01-01&order=desc&ec3_listing=all&paged='.$paged);



//load index to show blog

load_template(TEMPLATEPATH . '/blog.php');



}

 ?>

The blog-variable came from a plugin which allows me to grab some variables from my pages. At the home-page, I added the variable 'blog' and gave it the value of the wanted category, like cat=23.
Now, I get a loop with six articles (showposts=6) of the category defined in the blog-variable.
And with 'paged' I was able to list also older articles. But this is not working anymore. I get the page and the articles in it, but if I click on "older entries" (with the link http://www.gocart-online.com/?paged=2), I get the page with the same six articles.
If I translate the code from above to a link in the browser, like

Code:

http://www.gocart-online.com/?showposts=6&cat=23&ec3_after=2000-01-01&order=desc&ec3_listing=all&paged=2

it is working, but not from within the theme. This was working before I switched to WP3. I got my page and within it the blog of the category 23 and page one, two and so on.
I also updated to the newest version of the theme, nothing changed...
Mabe some code is not working anymore? $paged = get_query_var('paged'); for example?

Any ideas?
Thank you very much,
Drongo