Broken img appearing under header aaahh!

This little broken img icon is appearing under the jquery slideshow or the featured image on the header on internet explorer and safari. the homepage uses the slideshow and every other page displays a featured image instead. both the slideshow and the featured images are generated via a php shortcode. i’ve tried everything i can think of to try and get the little broken image icon to stop appearing. here is the code that generates the slideshow

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"<div style="clear:both;"><?php
if ( is_front_page() ) {
    echo do_shortcode ('  [jj-ngg-jquery-cycle html_id="about-cycle" gallery="1" width="1100" height="400" timeout="7000" speed="3000" fit="1"]');
} if ( is_home() ) {
    echo do_shortcode ('  [jj-ngg-jquery-cycle html_id="about-cycle" gallery="1" width="1100" height="400" timeout="7000" speed="3000" fit="1"]');
} else {
    echo '</div>'; echo do_shortcode ('[featured-img]');
}
?>"

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This has something to do with the theme and it’s widget areas. while i was modifying the theme these appeared under all of the widgets. i figured out how to get rid of all of them except the header widgets.

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