Yay! Gray box gone! Thank you so much! It never occurred to me that it was the icon menu, I’d have been at this forever.
My slider I did by going to Slider Settings and choosing Flex Slider under “Choose a Home Image Slider”. Then I uploaded some slides (mine are sized 400 px height and 1170 px width), and added them under “Slider Images”. (Just click where the + is and it opens up to a place to upload and enter captions and links. I added a slide for each image.) I also have Auto Player and Captions set to On and slide type set to Slide. Under Misc. Settings, I also have it set to override WordPress galleries with Virtue galleries (not sure if that makes a difference).
