I've followed the Advanced Slideshow Tutorial and mapped my views' content image to the slide_image field and I've done the same thing for my slide_pager. I am using the upright60p theme and the slideshow appears to work correctly except the slideshow images are out of sync with the pager items. For some reason an extra blank slide appears at the beginning of the slide, so the active pager item is always for the following slide, not the current slide.

For example: The slideshow should only have 4 items, but 5 slides are created (first slide is blank) and the pagers have the correct 4 items. So there are 5 slides, but only 4 pager items, causing the whole slideshow to go out of sync with the pager items.

<div class="slide clearfix">
  <div class="slide-inner clearfix">
    <div class="slide-text slide-text-horizontal slide-text-bottom clearfix">
      <div class="slide-text-inner clearfix">
      </div> <!-- slide-text-inner-->
    </div>  <!-- slide-text-->
  </div> <!-- slide-inner-->
</div>  <!-- slide-->

<div class="slide clearfix">
  <div class="slide-inner clearfix">
    <a href="http://klei.tekalsites.com/image/screenshot-04"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://klei.tekalsites.com/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow_main/public/screenshots/DS_04.png" width="562" height="316" alt="" /></a>                        
    <div class="slide-text slide-text-horizontal slide-text-bottom clearfix">
      <div class="slide-text-inner clearfix">
      </div> <!-- slide-text-inner-->
    </div>  <!-- slide-text-->
  </div> <!-- slide-inner-->
</div>  <!-- slide-->

You'll notice that the first slide is missing the whole image part. The following 4 slides look like the second slide in the above code.