Hi Jonah,
A Mod_s5_imageslide_current has been installed in a site Shaper Paradigm_Shift current template , on a new joomla 3.3.6 site.
We are exactly reproducing a 2.5 joomla site here,
http://sppuqar.uqar.ca.
The slide module has the top_row1_1 position.
Images Height: 342 px and width: 959px.
We only see a blue rectangle with buttons on the front page (see attached file).
We tried with safari 8.0.3 and Firefox 18.0.1.
Module mode and image mode give the same result.
If we enable responsive layout, the module partly disappears on the front-end.
The site is in development ; therefor , it isn't directly accessible unless you have an id and pass that I could give privately.
Thanks