[totaltec]

Donna, I don't have a copy of Refine Filters, but I see code for it in my templates. Look in /customer/left_bar.tpl in my template I see this on line 13:
{if $active_modules.Refine_Filters}

Just add to the if statement:
{if $active_modules.Refine_Filters and $catid ne 117}

If you have many categories where you don;t want it to show, a much more elegant solution would be to check the category in PHP and see if it is in the do not show list, then assign a $showfilter variable that you can use in your if statement.