pagination broken – clicking next displays “page not found”

NVM y’all I fixed my problem on my own! For those of you interested in how I fixed it – it had nothing to do with needing to use pre_get_posts! All it boiled down to was that I needed to go into the wp-admin page (the wordpress dashboard) and go to Settings then Reading and in the “Blog pages show at most” field I changed the value from ’10’ to ‘6’ (the number of posts I indicated in $wp_query->query(‘showposts=6&cat=1′.’&paged=’.$paged);) What a simple solution! I can’t believe I haven’t found it on another thread! Cheers