WordPress Multiple Loops Confusion - wordpress

I have multiple loops that I want to display on my WordPress blog. The categories are as follows:
Top-story (1 per page)
Small-story (1 per page)
Normal (1 per page)
Quickfill (2 per page)
I've got 4 loops to display these. I'm trying to display this amount of posts per page and once they've been displayed, don't show them again on another page, as I don't want to show duplicates.
My loops are as follows. I seem to be getting duplicates and when I'm trying to get them to remove duplicates I tend to remove everything without knowing how.
Top story - 1st loop
<?php
global $do_not_duplicate;
$do_not_duplicate = array();
$paged = max(1, get_query_var('paged'));
$my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=top-story&posts_per_page=1&paged='.$paged);
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
$do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID; ?>
// content
<?php endwhile; ?>
Small-story - 2nd loop
<?php
$my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=small-story&posts_per_page=1&paged='.$paged);
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
if (in_array($post->ID, $do_not_duplicate)) continue;
$do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID;
?>
// content
<?php endwhile; ?>
Normal posts (note: the category is actually called normal) - 3rd loop
<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=normal&posts_per_page=1&paged='.$paged);
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
if (in_array($post->ID, $do_not_duplicate)) continue;
$do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID; ?>
// content
<?php endwhile; ?>
Quickfill - 4th loop
<?php
$int = 0;
$my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=quickfill&posts_per_page=2&paged='.$paged);
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
if (in_array($post->ID, $do_not_duplicate)) continue;
$do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID;
if ($int==0) { ?>
<hr class="seperator" />
<div class="gr_bg_post">
<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/quickfill.png" />
<?php } ?>
<div class="fl">
<h4><?php the_title(); ?></h4>
<?php the_content('<button type="button" class="read_more_green">Read More</button>'); ?>
</div>
<?php if ($int==1) { ?>
</div>
<?php } ?>
<?php $int++; ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
Last loop - standard WordPress protocol for display posts... (I think this may have something to do with my duplicates)
<?php
$my_query = new WP_Query(array('post_not_in' => $do_not_duplicate));
if (have_posts()) : while ($my_query>have_posts()) : $my_query>the_post();
?>
// content
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now and I just can't seem to stop duplicates showing, or get the correct posts to show. Any help is greatly appreciated!

You are missing the query variable $my_query in the last query
$my_query = new WP_Query(array('post_not_in' => $do_not_duplicate));
if ($my_query->have_posts()) : while ($my_query>have_posts()) : $my_query>the_post();
// content
endwhile; endif;

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http://design.sparklette.net/teaches/how-to-add-wordpress-pagination-without-a-plugin/

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