Removing the modules from home page in Magento

There is a huge demand to customize only the home page sidebar leaving the other pages which are the category pages or the product pages. One of my clients asked for the same solution need to be done. After going through the other magento blogs and other data like magento forums, I came to the best solution (what I thought) to customize the left sidebar or right sidebar.
On the CMS pages go to your home page. Move to your design tab.
Then whichever sidebar you are using (left or right) just include the following lines:-

Lets take example of removing the compare products option from the home page only. Just write the following code into the design section of CMS home page.





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Similarly for other modules. You need to use the block name which you can easily find on layout file and place that like this:-

I used magento ver 1.5.0.1 for this debugging. Hope it helps. Happy ecommerce.