Double home tabs and sidebar navigation question

Hi all,

I'm using Atahualpa for the first time, somewhat of a newbie Wordpress user.

I'm using Wordpress as a CMS with static pages for the front page. A common problem with themes is that when you set the a page as static and as the front page, the navigation tabs will show the home page twice.

One fix is to make that page a child of another page but that leads to other issues.

Where I am with Atahualpa is that with the 'Exclude Pages' or 'Page Link Manager' plugins, I can hide the second home tab without having to make the page a child of another.

When I do so, however, the 'Home' link in the sidebar navigation also disappears. You can see an example at 'www.portlandlandscapeservices.com.'

Thanks for any suggestions. Where I want to get to is to have the tabs and the sidebar navigation be the same when I am using a static page as the home page.

Todd