Hi B1gft,
Regarding the images not displaying on the homepage, I’ve taken a look at your front page and believe I may have the reason why the images aren’t displaying.
For each post that you have displayed on the homepage, you are displaying the post excerpt. When displaying the post excerpt, I believe that all XHTML tags are stripped from this. This would include images.
Two possible solutions to this would be to install a custom excerpt plugin. This would give you more control over the excerpt. The alternative would be to replace the <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
tag with <?php the_content('Continue Reading'); ?>
. This will display all the text of the post leading up to a <!--more-->
tag on the post (there’s a button for this on the WordPress rich text editor… you can also type it in “HTML” mode on the editor) and will create a “read more” link below this. This will allow for the inclusion of images in the front page area.
I hope this helps. ??