transition makes for jumpy site

Thanks for your feedback. The jumping is due to the class left being assigned to the next element to be show in the carousel when the transition occurs. The class left has the following style properties defined in your http://mbcsolutions.net/thesis/wp-content/thesis/skins/thesis-blank/css.css file:

.post_box .left, .post_box .alignleft, .post_box .ad_left {
    margin-bottom: 26px;
    margin-right: 26px;
}

So, the solution would be either to remove the line that defines the margin-bottom, or override that property with a new CSS selector (for example, .carousel-inner .item.left { margin-bottom: 0; }). Personally, I think the later is the best practice for this case.

Please note that this is not a plugin related issue, but a CSS one.

Thanks again for your comments. Please let me know if this helped you!