Oh on the subject of the sliding picture gallery, by only having one pic come up at a time the picture size is far to big. I think it would be better to have say three pictures present side by side. As the bar slides, the left one is deleted and an new pic is placed on the right and the whole lot is scrolling one pic at a time to the left. That way the overall height of the bar cound be around 2.5 inches which would look neat underneath the headder pic. It would also help in dealing with the sharpness and pixilation problem on the pictures that is due to them being made over sized to meet the width of the page. Just a suggestion. You can check out the problem by opening the site
www.modern-nationalist.com in the latest version of IE e.g 8 or higher and then using the compatibility view button on and off to see the effects.