1] I'll have to check that out. Off the top of my head, I'd say that creating the static HTML doesn't work when slideshows are turned on through the config file. Try setting slide_timer=0 in the config file before creating the static HTML.
2] That's a bug! I've just fixed it in the zip, so if you re-download, it should be good.
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