SQL error views nodequeue node carousel

I'm trying to use node carousel to display some pictures on the front page of a weekly newspaper site that will want to feature a few photos on the front.

I'm able to use the nodequeue option to make my ordering, but that forces my node carousel to display the teaser or at least the teaser size of the picture, when I'm trying to display a fairly large version of the picture (generated via imagecache). It seems like the right thing to do is use views, choosing the node queue order/filter, but picking the larger picture size in fields. Unfortunately, whenever I try to do that, when I go to view the actual page, I get an error message like this:

user warning: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '= '')' at line 1 query: SELECT count(node.nid) FROM node node LEFT JOIN nodequeue_nodes nodequeue_nodes ON node.nid = nodequeue_nodes.nid WHERE (. = '') in /home/riverrep/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 174.

Thanks for any assistance!