many unchangeble things?

Hi!

I just downloaded this template

And I have some problems:

1- My featured slide show doesn’t work! it stopped! I though it had some conflicts with some of my plug-ins but it wasn’t that =S

2- How can I change the links that appear that are in the squares? I tried to changed the code
<div id="leftposts"><?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=".$ani_featured_left."&showposts=2"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>"
and
<div id="rightposts"><?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=".$ani_featured_right."&showposts=2"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>

to 1 but it makes that the most recent post appears.

oh, and my site (it is still under construction) is this: http://maxcareccio.xtreemhost.com/

Thanks in advance!