1) For your sidebar menu highlighting, try using has_category( $cat ) (Codex ref) rather than in_category( $cat ). (Reference Otto’s comment above.)
2) For navigation, if you’re using previous_post_link()/next_post_link() (Codex ref) use the $in_same_cat argument.
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