I'm having a very similar problem. The two posts I'm using in the slider appear together (one just visible under the other). The slider slides to a blank, then back to the two posts together. www.omnergy.org/spokes

Ditto. I also tried the Related Posts Slider and encountered a problem. I think it's in the carousel code. I'm getting an error "Object doesn't support this property or method". It points to this: jQuery("#smooth_slider").jcarousel({

Looking for just basic support. I'll try another avenue since it seems there are many unanswered problems.

This fixed the stacking problem on my site: Place this: <?php wp_head(); ?> in the head section of your header.php page right below all of your meta names etc. (well at least that is the page I needed it in- this could be different for you)
I'm having the problem now that my drop down menus are appearing behind the slider...any thoughts on this?

Thanks for the suggestion megterry14, but it didn't work. I'm convinced the carousel code needs to be re-written. I noticed also that there's no WORKING example on the author's site for the carousel. The "newspaper appearance" script works fine and appears to be popular.