CMS going great BUT challenge with 2 image situations

Looking good! Here's how to do what you want:

To get images to display on the list page you just copy the "STEP3: Display Uploads" block from the page viewer to the list viewer.

If you want just the first image only, you can use add a tag to stop looping through the images after 1 ("break"ing out of the loop) . That looks like this: <?php break; ?>

And title and caption fields (or any extra info fields you've created for uploads) are available as info1, info2, info3, info4, info5. You'd display them like this: <?php echo $upload['info1'] ?>

Putting that all together you'd add something like this to step 2 (List Records) to your customList.php.

<?php foreach ($listRows as $record): ?>

...


<?php foreach (getUploads($options['tableName'], 'uploads', $record['num']) as $upload): ?>
<?php if ($upload['hasThumbnail']): ?>

<img src="<?php echo $upload['thumbUrlPath'] ?>"
width="<?php echo $upload['thumbWidth'] ?>"
height="<?php echo $upload['thumbHeight'] ?>" /><br/>
<?php echo $upload['info1'] ?><br/>
<?php echo $upload['info2'] ?><br/>
<?php break; ?>

<?php endif ?>
<?php endforeach ?>

...

<?php endforeach ?>

Let me know if that works for you or if you need additional details.