alkafy

For both 1. and 2., you’ll need to look in to creating a page template for this page specifically.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates

It’ll take a bit of HTML and CSS knowledge on your part, but using a copy of page.php in your theme’s folder as a starting point should help.

As for 3. – other options I’d consider are more advanced and might break Kickstarter’s TOS.

Instead of embedding the project in your site, have you considered opening Kickstarter in a new window instead?

Add this to your functions.php:

remove_action('wp_head', 'poll_head_scripts');

Also, it adds in polls-css.css. Would you like that removed?

Edit: If so, add this to functions.php as well:

add_action('wp_print_styles', 'polls_deregister_styles', 100 );

function polls_deregister_styles() {
	wp_deregister_style( 'wp-polls' );
}

Try placing:
<?php update_option('siteurl','http://www.runningbums.com'; ?>
in your theme’s functions.php.

Did you give the plugin a shot? For every picture or thumbnail, there is meta associated with it in the database. That plugin will delete all database data for those attachments and reinsert it. If the files exist, refreshing that data might work.

@aesqe – Thank you for sharing. Exactly what I needed.