Excerpt-Extra post pictures showing up

I am fairly new to CSS. I am customizing the Pilcrow theme.

I was trying to get it so my main page showed excerpts with a picture. I was successful, but posts that have images within the first 55 words show up in the excerpt. I was wondering how to get it so the excerpt ignores all pictures except for the picture I have set as the thumbnail.

I had edited the loop.php to get the excerpt to work:

“>
<img src=”<?php echo get_first_image();?>” class=”alignleft” height=”200″/>

<div class=”entry entry-content”>
<?php the_excerpt( __( ‘Continue reading <span class=”meta-nav”>→
</span>’, ‘pilcrow’ ) ); ?>
<?php wp_link_pages( array( ‘before’ => ‘<div class=”page-link”>’ . __( ‘Pages:’, ‘pilcrow’ ), ‘after’ => ‘</div>’ ) ); ?>
</div><!– .entry-content –>

Thank you! Let me know if you need more information! I tried looking around for other posts but none really answered it completely.

I saw this one: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/controlling-image-display-in-post-excerpts?replies=28 but it then went more on talking about another topic of images and posts.

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