Hey Paul,

These settings have been relocated to the menu to allow greater flexibility in EasyBlog 5. In other words, you can have some menu's displaying the featured slider while some doesn't. This mimics the behavior of the menu items on Joomla

To give you a better idea of it, take a look at my screen shot here, http://screencast.com/t/oEIusaH1 . I have turned this off for you by the way