FINAL UPDATE – SOLVED
I foudn that in jquery.nivo.slider.js there was an IF statement to auto-set the start slide, but it wasn’t working for me.
original, starting line 58:
// Set startSlide
if(settings.startSlide > 0){
if(settings.startSlide >= vars.totalSlides) { settings.startSlide = vars.totalSlides – 1; }
My solution:
// Set startSlide
if(settings.startSlide > 0){
if(settings.startSlide >= vars.totalSlides) { settings.startSlide = vars.totalSlides;}
You might want to update the code for the fixit pro theme package with this fix.