Some Issues and Questions.

Just starting to find my way around this feature packed theme and have a few questions and issues:

1. (A)When using the animated image slider if I select “medium” as display size it doesn’t work, all images are blown up very big and lose their resolution. It does work once I enter px*px height and width but that ends up zooming and cropping images. I’d like to display them close to org. dimensions. (B.) The slider image buttons (little dots) appear inside the image frame which doesn’t look good, this is solved by using NAVI slider BUT, I don’t want the title to appear on the bottom, is there some code to move the dots below the frame as in Navi?

2. Is there a way to get search results thumbnail previews? I only get text results.

3. I can’t get the custom ad to work in header or elsewhere. I don’t understand why we must use Google code or how to alter the code. Usually for ads you selected the image, paste the URL and done, this adsense code is confusing.

4. Using the default template, I’ve selected ‘blue’ as menu border colour but it doesn’t show up.

5. Using the homepage builder I’m trying to assign 2 plugin widgets; ‘Newsletter sign up’ and ‘events calendar’ to the side bar but there is no option to select them. How do I get them to appear on my homepage?

Thanks!!