Figured it out...
Essentially we pulled the custom field image from the posts. We will be making another custom field for the posts for another image. So, one image from post will be for the frontpage->press block and the second image will be displayed in a fancybox overlay.
Here is the relevant code snippet:
http://www.filedropper.com/code_1
^^ posting the code this time around screwed with the formatting and figured to just save it to a file "code.php", upload to free upload site, post here... I followed the posting instructions like last time to post the snippet but I must be doing something wrong but don't have time now to figure that out...
Regards, George