Site it almost done but a few issues

It may be a long shot but I'm seeking help with a few issues on an almost-complete site that I have built. There are some things I can't resolve:

--Taxonomy display: my taxonomy term landing pages are displaying with a "read more" link that I don't want. I was also trying to remove comments on the same pages and have just disabled the core comment module to solve the problem. But that's not the ideal solution if I want to allow comments on specific content types.

--Taxonomy views with parent/child relationships--can't get them to display "with depth"

--Feeds--I've used feeds to create 2,000 image nodes. It works, sort of. As I understand it, Feeds doesn't create the file, it only references what is on the server. I tried it and the created nodes are not attached to any file. So I FTP'd the files to the server and ran the import. It works but even though it won't create the file in the first case, it does create another file with _0 at the end of every file such as "filename_0.jpg". So instead of 2,000 files in my images folder I have 4,000. I can delete the original ones but for updates this is a problem. In that case, another set of 2,000 files is created with _0_0.jpg. There is an option to "replace file" in the Feeds configuration but that didn't work either.

--I've searched EVERYWHERE for a way to bulk edit captions. I'm using ImageFieldCaption module. I've tried using VBO to do this but since it's not really a "field" but an attribute (like "alt text" and "title"), it is not exposed as an option when configuring VBO. I used feeds to add "alt text" and "title" but Feeds doesn't have any option to use caption. I need to add 2,000 captions.

--Need to get key|value pairs (multiple) in a field to display properly on the node pages and a few other minor items.

This is a site geared toward conservation and nature that I'm creating as a labor of love so there's no income on my end. I tried Display Suite for some of the problems but couldn't make that work. I've been searching for answers through google and drupal.org, installing modules and uninstalling when they don't work. I've tried IRC but didn't get any responses to questions. I've gone to Drupal User Groups meetings in the past but found them to be more for general information and not suited for specific questions. I may be able to pay a small amount if anyone has time to help me, but obviously this is not a big-ticket job. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.