[Plugin: Flickr API] A problem with the "Simple Slide Show"

Hi your plugin promises to be a great solution for me, but i have two little issues with it…

1) In my theme the “simple slideshow” doesn’t display properly.
Here it is on this page of my site…
http://www.haroldstreet.org.uk/other/?page_id=2435
and here is the shortcode i used…

[flickrapi user="Phil + Heather" get="photoset" id="72157630530439626" size="z" count="5"]

I can force it to display properly by hacking at the CSS – so it works fine if i remove the position: absolute; from just the first photo’s div element – like this…

<div class="figure" style="opacity: 0; top: 0px; left: 0px; z-index: 5;">

(or less well if i remove the position: relative; from its parent div – like this <div class="cycle-wrap" style="overflow: hidden;">)
Can you suggest a better fix for this?

2) i’ve had real issues working out the syntax of the short code!
Can you tell me the short code for displaying photos with a specific tag in flickr?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flickr-api/