Hybrid Theme tweeking

Couple of things I want to change in the Hybrid theme slideshow:

1. I want to hide the text info section at the bottom, I managed to hide the side panel ok but need help on this.

2. Remove the arrow button and back to album buttons on the title bar, I managed to get rid of the item info button ok but need help with these 2.

Here's how it looks atm:
http://www.theartworksgalleries.com/slideshow/main.php?g2_itemId=71

Thanks in advance for any help

update: hid the text area and buttons, (set size of buttons to zero!) I now need to:

Is there any way create a url link that will start the slideshow right away?

And can I add a website logo to my slideshow? I followed a guide for adding 1 to the matrix theme and did this:

<div id="gsHeader">
<img src="{g->url href="images/tawg_logo_web_small.jpg"}" width="107" height="48" alt=""/>
</div>

This didn't work however, and this section of code isn't in the hybrid theme.tpl file.