Best wishes to you, Chris 
I start my days either at my desk or in the living room, and eventually move over to my bed in the evenings if I’ve had a long day (I know, poor me working from home right? :P)
Could we get a URL to your live site? Might be able to catch something in the CSS .
I know I’ve seen plenty of themes using the LayerSlider plugin which is sold over on CodeCanyon, so I think we could safely assume that you’re right.
We’ve been working on our first theme here for about 3 months, but this includes coding our page builder 
Just upload the extra zip, mate. The end-user can opt in to install the plugin themselves.
http://themeforest.net/forums/thread/wordpress-theme-only-attachment/50937
