Replacing excerpt with post content

I am using Creativix theme with a slideshow that incorporates Title and excerpt of designated posts. I am trying to replace the excerpt with the_content so that it will show paragraphs and formatting.

I was able to make this change on my blog using the advice in this post:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-incorporate-formatlinks-into-blog?replies=2#post-4097559

However, it did not work when I applied the same fix on my home page which also uses the excerpt tag for ‘featured posts’.

The relevant code from tpl_home.php looks like this:

<?php

						foreach( $wpcx_myposts as $post ) :	setup_postdata($post);

							$wpcx_slideshow_title = get_the_title();

							$wpcx_slideshow_text = wpcx_cut_text(get_the_excerpt(), 290);

							$wpcx_thumb_big = wpcx_get_wp_generated_thumb("slideshow");

							if(empty($wpcx_thumb_big)) {

								$wpcx_thumb_big = get_template_directory_uri()."/images/default_slideshow.jpg";

							}

							?>

								<li><img src="<?php echo $wpcx_thumb_big;?>" alt="<?php the_title();?>" /><div class="slide_text"><h1><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title();?>

/* Removed <span> Date, Time, and Comment from slideshow text wrapper*/

<p><?php echo $wpcx_slideshow_text;?></p><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>">read more</a></div></li>

							<?php 

						endforeach;

					?>

I tried to replace ‘excerpt’ with ‘content’ in all relevant areas but it didn’t work. Is the custom_excerpt a specially designed function that I need to find/edit elsewhere?

Or can I override with a conditional tag?

I am trying to avoid editing the functions.php as I am still an amateur.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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