Thanks Eric,
Yes, I used the older 1.4.1 version of Epik because I needed to use Epik how I modified it for another site and pulled it into a new one and am building from there. I wished I could have started over.
Your suggestion is a great one. I may just pull that newer template into the theme and grab the functions in the functions.php along with the CSS and see how it flies. In staging of course.
Yes, I finally got the if ( $loop_counter == 3 ) to cooperate when I changed it to if ( $loop_counter == 2 ) I tried many times. Maybe there was a caching issue on that account.
Thanks for your quick reply!