VM Category Layout first page

[capricornio]

Using Joomla 2.5.6 and VM 2.0.6. Created menu with 4 items going to category layout.
Item 1 goes to cat A, item 2 goes to cat A1, item 3 goes to cat A2 and item 4 goes to cat B

1. Is it possible to have menulink Item 1 that shows the products from cat A1 and cat A2 without putting them also in cat A ?

2. When I go to the second page of item 2 and then click on item 3 it also shows the 2nd page. I want every menu item link show the first page. What am I doing wrong here ?

Thanks for helping me out