Wes, you were right about the positioning, oh ye of little faith, and contrary to expectations ~ everything went very well.
The only problem I am left with is an 80px space between the top of the slider and the bottom of the widgetized nav bar ~ divs slider and slider-inner ~ and an 8px slider between the bottom of the slider and the top of the “Welcome Wide” div which I cant find a reason for.
What’s the best way to remove all these?
P.S. The only reason I needed to change the slider from the one you had used is the fact that there was no stop/pause without the on-slider navigation, and one other thing which was a bit more difficult to deal with. In your usage you displayed “products” which could be made to be as if sitting in the background and therefore, spatially, the image floated. Unfortunately, my subject matter is “advertising images of people/animals etc” which already has its frame outline clearly defined and when placed in a slider looks like what it is, a cut and paste job. My solution was to try and make the images go full width and butt at the bottom and the top, so they fill the entire slider space. Hence the need for another slider. But if I can do that with the Genesis slider, please let me know how and I will try.