[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] NextGen-gallery not displaying dismming around enlarged image

This is about nextgen-gallery. On the page
https://indyamericans.com/pictures-of-perry/nggallery/images/
The gallery defaults to slideshow and works ok. But if you select [thumbnails],the four images stack vertically (vs the 3 columns I specified in the NextGen-Gallery gallery options) and, when you click on the images, goes into slide view with larger images and navigation (the back / forward buttons are displayed Block style one on top of the other instead of side-by-side) navigation, it never shows the dimming around the image. I am using Thickbox effect (after trying all the others, like Lightbox and Shutter–which operated similarly). Can’t find any control for dimming opacity or dimming color.s I’ve set this up on several other sites with no problem. In all my sites I have used Artisteer-generated theme with no problem.

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/