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thank you SO much @prashantvatsh — that worked!! the only thing i had to do after was to hide the things that were appearing above the picture/groups list now since the workaround you posted above. so, to the ‘additional CSS’ section in the wordpress customizer, i added:

div#subnav-filters.subnav-filters.filters.no-ajax{
display:none !important; 
}

div.pag-count.top{
display:none !important; 
}

i realized that the image was not floating “above” the list of all groups….it was now part of the container (or whatever you call it) of the groups. and i wasn’t going to use those sections i just hid via CSS (above) anyway…thank goodness someone else had told me how to hide something else previously via CSS or i’d never have been able to hide that stuff i just hid, either! 😀

thanks again for all your help. this works good enough for me. <3 you’re fantastic!!