Greetings, all-knowing-ones,

I've been hacking at this error for hours now and I've run out of ideas. Using the component feature, I'm trying to pass two parameters from a view, through a helper, to the target controller, which then in turn passes the parameter to the model for incorporation into a DB query. I keep getting the error:
ArgumentError in Link managerController#show
wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)

I don't understand what is happening here, I'm passing two parameters and I'm using two parameters. Let me walk you through the relevant parts of my code:

Code:
<div id="wrapper">
     <% if flash[:notice] -%>
          <div id="notice"><%= flash[:notice] %></div>
      <% end -%>     	           
           
      <%= insert_context_menu%>
     
      <%= @content_for_layout %>
</div>
the call to insert_context_menu is to a helper that looks like this:

Code:
def insert_context_menu        
     if @show_context
          render_component(:controller => 'LinkManager',
                         :action => 'show',
                         :params =>{"cat" => "admin","sub" =>"user_manager"},
                         :layout => nil)
      end  
end
So, I've assigned values to two parameters, cat and sub. The helper calls on the following action:

Code:
def show 
    @local_links = Link.get_links (params[:cat,:sub])
end
I'm now calling on the model to query the database and return data I need to build context-sensitive hyper-links. I think I'm correctly passing the two parameters that orginated in the helper. Here's the method in the model:

Code:
def self.get_links
     link.find(:first, 
                :conditions => ["category = ? AND sub_category = ?", cat,sub])  
end
This query works fine when I tested by creating and setting two variables locally. But as soon as this whole thing runs, I get the wrong number of arguments error.

Any help in restoring my sanity would be much appreciated!

Thanks!