Hi jlei,
Apologies for only answering you questions now - they seem to have slipped through.
As soon as the home page is done, we'll update the screenshots with a more complete look (the listings are currently being styled - hence the reason they're not featuring right now). We're playing around with a few colour options at the moment, although we still have to decide how we'll package it
. In terms of release date, and don't hold me to this as it's still a rough estimate, I'd like to release it within the next 2 weeks or so... depending on our customisation projects we've got going.
The slider part of theme is powered by a plugin that's available from the Wordpress Theme repository (entitled Easing Slider) - if this plugin is not installed, there will be no Slider options to play around with...
Hope it helps