Thanks for the reply,
I am copying the embedded code from YouTube and pasting it into the DEV/VIDEO section of the slider.

Here is the embed code:
<iframe width=”260″ height=”190″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/ymUN6zCdCGo?autoplay=1&loop=1&playlist=PLCOwq4HGHmPy69bOJqR-FoNl2WWS3FORm&shuffle=265&showinfo=0&controls=0″ frameborder=”0″></iframe>

Interestingly enough the videos seem to stream and play properly BEFORE I click “enter preview” and also save the changes and preview the page. But when I “ENTER PREVIEW” I get the gray box with 3 dots in them.

For question #2 – I suppose that would be a request for future updates to the template. If there are more than one page of blogs listed to have the page stay still and just paginate to the next list and not refresh the entire screen putting you back up to the top of the page to have to scroll down and find your place again.