[Plugin: WP Featured Content Slider] Text of featured page on slider covers navigation buttons

I am only featuring pages of my WordPress site in the slider, not blog posts (not sure if that matters). Everything works great except the height of the excerpt of the text of the page that is included on the slider is higher than it should be. It goes past the navigation buttons almost to the bottom of the slider. I woud like the excerpt of the text of the page to stop above the navigation buttons so people can see them and use them. How do I fix this?

Will this fix take care of it?

[blockquote]In featured-content-slider.php the link to jquery is an old version and should be updated to the most current version — download the current release from jquery.com and replace the old version in the “scripts” folder, then update the link as necessary.[/blockquote]

If so, exactly how do I do that? Step-by-step instructions would be very helpful.

TIA

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-featured-content-slider/