Having problems with widgets and fanart

Hi,

First of all I love this skin. By far my favorite except for a small issue that I just dont know how to solve. On my home screen I have my different sections set up in the traditional format with section headings on the bottom. Now above that, as you are aware, one can set up widgets which I did. I deleted all my fanart links in my xml file but nonetheless the very first widget’s thumbnail always shows up as my background for all the widgets for a section. So lets say I have 10 items, with a square pattern for my widgets. The first widget’s thumbnail shows up in the background for every widget as I “shift” right or left.

How can I delete that or remove that so that the thumbnail of the first item no longer shows up as my background at all. Also, when I go to set up the “sectional backgrounds” which is what I thought I could do to overwrite essentially the backgrounds I get one choice only and its a third party plugin host (I believe..though not totally sure). The point being I have no ability to even try to grab an image from my hard drive for example or anywhere else.

Could someone kindly give me the steps involved in trying to sort out 1. how to completely eliminate thumbnails from showing up as the background for my scrolling widgets along the bottom (in particular the first widget’s which becomes the background for every widget in each section) so that when I scroll through my widgets either nothing appears or the background I have linked for them and 2. when i go through System->Skin->HomeWindow->Setup menu and Widgets->Select Background, I cannot actually pick a background from somewhere on my computer because everything is currently greyed out when I try.

Thanks