One other question for you…for the featured slider images…it currently goes to the post itself if you click on it…any way I could have the click go to a different url? Like can you point me to the code and tell me how and where I can put my custom url to point the click to?
Since you don’t have anything in your pages used for slider I can teach you a very sneaky trick.
You can use this plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/ It provides an option to send page/post to any URL. Since slider use get_permalink it will work for slider as well.
You can do it inside code as well but it will be much easier to get this done with plugin