It seems that back in Oct 2006 when I updated my site design to use a simple plugin to automate the page listing all my plugins I managed to zip up a non-working version of the code.  Thanks to Stephen Rider my incompetence has been discover and I have now released an updated version of the plugin which will actually work for other people!  If you have attempted in the past to use my query child of $page plugin and failed please head over to the page and download a working copy.