Question for the Master - answer if you can.

Hello,
I am currently running drupal 4.7.0 w/out any CVS modules (need to get that out of the way). I am currently attempting to configure the e-commerce module and specifically the subproducts module so that it will not print all of the subproducts (variations of the product) within the category that the product resides.

What I really need to know is how can I set the "category" of these subproducts to be "none" as opposed to the "parent category" when they are created - so I dont have to do it by hand? I have attempted to set the $node->cid = 0 in the functions that it seemed necessary which I will include below. These functions come from the subproducts.inc file that lives quitely in the subproducts.module.

/**
 * The third stage of the variation generation wizard.
 *
 * Having received user input on which attribute combinations
 * to use for new subproducts, we generate the requested 
 * subproducts. 
 *
 * @param $node
 *   A node object representing a parent product.
 */
function subproducts_generate_wizard3($node) {
  $node->pparent = $node->nid;
//  $node->status = 0;
  $node->comment = 0;
  $node->voting = 0;
  $children = $node->children;
  $title = $node->title;
  // It's not clear where this array key comes from, but it generates errors and so needs to be unset.
  unset($node->path);
  $permutations = $_POST['edit']['permutations'];
  foreach ($permutations as $key => $value) {
    if ($value['use']) {
      $title_bits = array();
      $node->variations = array();
      $pairs = explode('||', $key);
      foreach ($pairs as $pair) {
        $item = explode('|', $pair);
        $node->variations[] = $item[1];
        $attribute = subproducts_get_attribute($item[1]);
        $title_bits[] = $attribute->name;
      }
      $node->title = $title . ' ' . implode(' ', $title_bits);
      $node->price = $value['price'];
      $node->stock = $value['stock'];
      unset($node->nid);
      unset($node->path);
      $node->cid = 0;                  //  <----  Here is what I added.
      node_save($node);
    }
  }
  drupal_goto('node/' . $node->pparent);
}

/**
 * The third stage of the base selection wizard.
 *
 * Having received user input on which attribute combinations
 * to use for the selected base products, we generate the requested 
 * subproducts. 
 *
 * @param $node
 *   A node object representing a parent product.
 */
function subproducts_select_bases_wizard3($node) {
  $status = subproducts_admin_sql();
  // We copy the original node to retain its properties
  // before selectively removing some, which we don't want
  // in the subproducts.
  $parent = $node;
  $node->pparent = $parent->nid;
//  $node->status = 0;
  $node->comment = 0;
  $node->voting = 0;
  unset($node->price_type);
  unset($node->path);
  $bases = $_POST['edit']['bases'];
  foreach ($bases as $nid => $variations) {
    $options = array();
    foreach ($variations as $vid => $attributes) {
      $array[$vid] = array();
      foreach ($attributes as $aid => $use) {
        if ($use['use']) {
          $options[$vid][] = $aid;
        }
      }
    }
    // Find all the permutations.
    $permutations = subproducts_permute($options);
    // For each permutation, test if there is a product that has the required attributes,
    // and if so create a new child product with it as a base.
    foreach ($permutations as $permutation) {
      $joins = array();
      $wheres = array();
      foreach ($permutation as $index => $aid) {
        $joins[] = 'INNER JOIN {ec_product_attribute} a'. $index .' ON p.nid = a'. $index .'.nid';
        $wheres[] = 'a'. $index .'.aid = ' . $aid;
      }
      $result = db_query('SELECT DISTINCT(p.nid) FROM {ec_product} p INNER JOIN {node} n ON p.nid = n.nid ' . implode(' ', $joins) . ' WHERE ' . implode(' AND ', $wheres) . ' AND ' . $status . ' p.pparent = %d', $nid);
      if (db_num_rows($result)) {
        $match = db_fetch_object($result);
        // If we already have a subproduct with this base product, skip.
        if (count($node->children) && db_num_rows(db_query("SELECT * FROM {ec_product_base} WHERE product IN (%s) AND base = %d", implode(',', $node->children), $match->nid))) {
          continue;
        }
        $node->base = $match->nid;
        // Set values from the base product.
        $base = node_load($node->base);
        $node->title = $parent->title . ' ' . $base->title;
        if (isset($parent->price_type)) {
          $node->base_price = $base->price;
          subproducts_reset_price_base($node, $parent);
        }
        else {
          $node->price = $parent->price + $base->price;
        }
        $node->stock = $base->stock;
        // It's not clear where this array key comes from, but it generates errors and so needs to be unset.
        unset($node[0]);
        unset($node->nid);
        $node->cid = 0;                          // <---- here is the other modification
        node_save($node);
      }
    }
  }
  // It's not clear where this array key comes from, but it generates errors and so needs to be unset.
  unset($parent[0]);
  // We resave the parent node to trigger any nodeapi hooks that might act on a product with subproducts.
  node_save($parent);
  // Display the parent page.
  drupal_goto('node/' . $parent->nid);
}

So i hope that someone out there is able to help me find a way to keep the listings of subproducts out of the category of products. I dont even see why they are listed since the product has a handy way of selecting which type of subproduct is desired, it just clutters up the screen.

Perhaps I might be able to use the unset() function to clear out the category information to the product. At this point I am not sure. I cant really even say that I know what variable is used to store the category information of each product so I hope some Drupal Master (DM) can help.

Best Regards, Derek