I am looking to remove the left hand navigation from the top level category pages. I attempted the following xml in layout updates within the category section of admin panel but unfortunately it had no effect.
<remove name="catalog.leftnav"/>
Here's the catalog.xml reference that I believe calls this nav - I've even tried commenting out the xml but the nav still displays.
<label>Catalog Category (Anchor)</label>
<reference name="left_first">
<block type="catalog/layer_view" name="catalog.leftnav" after="currency" template="catalog/layer/view.phtml">
<block type="core/text_list" name="catalog.leftnav.state.renderers" as="state_renderers" />
</block>
</reference>
Can anyone help please?