Topic: HOW TO: don't load first image / hide first image (solution)
There's a lot of threads on this forum requesting a way to do this. I found a very simple way that works for me.
In thumbArea.as,
look for the "init" function:
On line 72 (at least in my version of the code) change:
mSelectedThumbIndex = 0;
to
mSelectedThumbIndex= -1;
Then save and Publish, it will do the job.