First of all, thanks for all of the support on your theme, it has been great...
ok, I did this and it works, sort of.
The sidebar is showing up, but now, it is acting a bit wonky.
I have gone through this video (is it supposed to have audio?): http://www.vfxdude.com/cufon-uploader-and-slider/
I have also read through all of the bfslider documentation and deleted and re-created my slider before I posted this message.
Here is the page I am referencing: http://s316222589.onlinehome.us/stransmith/
I have my bfslider shortcode applied to a page set as my homepage through the reading settings(so, it is not set to the blog homepage). This page is set to the default template and I have set the featurepage custom field with the page id set as value as described above.
This is where it starts to get wonky in a couple of different ways...
1. The bfslider is no longer continuously looping in the correct way. The last slide repeats and then serves up a blank slide and instead of continuing the slide effect to the first frame, it just appears after the mystery blank slide.
2. It seems all of the slides in my slider re-appear as if they are posts below my slider.
Here is a link to screenshots of some of my current settings in case I might be missing something obvious to you.
http://s316222589.onlinehome.us/stransmith/bfslider_settings.jpg
Thanks for any guidance.