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I am looking to edit two pieces of code exclude a specific category from the homepage only, can you help?

[code]
<div id="latest-products">
<h2>Latest Products</h2>
<div class="product-container">
<?php
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query= null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query->query('showposts=12'.'&paged='.$paged);
while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>
<div class="product">
" title="<?php printf( __('%s', 'sandbox'), the_title_attribute('echo=0') ) ?>">
<img class="product-image" src="<?php $img_dir = get_post_custom_values('image'); bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo $img_dir[0]; ?>&w=132&h=106&zc=1" width="132" height="106" />

" title="<?php printf( __('%s', 'sandbox'), the_title_attribute('echo=0') ) ?>"><?php the_title() ?>
<p class="rrp">RRP: <span>£<?php $rrp = get_post_custom_values('rrp'); echo $rrp[0]; ?></span></p>
<p class="price">Our Price: <span>£<?php $price = get_post_custom_values('price'); echo $price[0]; ?></span></p>
<div class="more-info">">More Info</div>
</div><div id="latest-products">
<h2>Latest Products</h2>
<div class="product-container">
<?php
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query= null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query->query('showposts=8&orderby=rand'.'&paged='.$paged);
while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>
<div class="product">
" title="<?php printf( __('%s', 'sandbox'), the_title_attribute('echo=0') ) ?>">
<img class="product-image" src="<?php $img_dir = get_post_custom_values('image'); bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo $img_dir[0]; ?>&w=132&h=106&zc=1" width="132" height="106" />

" title="<?php printf( __('%s', 'sandbox'), the_title_attribute('echo=0') ) ?>"><?php the_title() ?>
<p class="rrp">RRP: <span>£<?php $rrp = get_post_custom_values('rrp'); echo $rrp[0]; ?></span></p>
<p class="price">Our Price: <span>£<?php $price = get_post_custom_values('price'); echo $price[0]; ?></span></p>
<div class="more-info">">More Info</div>
</div>
[/code]

and

[code]

<div id="best-sellers">
<h3>Best Sellers</h3>
<?php
query_posts('posts_per_page=2&orderby=rand');
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>
<div class="product">
" title="<?php printf( __('%s', 'sandbox'), the_title_attribute('echo=0') ) ?>">
<img class="product-image" src="<?php $img_dir = get_post_custom_values('image'); bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo $img_dir[0]; ?>&w=144&h=144&zc=1" width="144" height="144" />

" title="<?php printf( __('%s', 'sandbox'), the_title_attribute('echo=0') ) ?>"><?php the_title() ?>
<p class="rrp">RRP: <span>£<?php $rrp = get_post_custom_values('rrp'); echo $rrp[0]; ?></span></p>
<p class="price">Our Price: <span>£<?php $price = get_post_custom_values('price'); echo $price[0]; ?></span></p>
<div class="more-info">">More Info</div>

</div>
[/code]