Resetting image to first image when color box is closed.

This may be beyond the intended scope of this module, but I'm having some issues when using Colorbox as the image formatter.
When I set up colorbox as the image formatter and set to view only one item, after clicking on the item and then closing the colorbox, the image is larger and blocks the title, as though I had rearranged those fields in the view configuration so image preceded title.

If I do a per-post gallery, then I have the same behavior but with a twist-after closing the lightbox the original isotope item shows whatever the image being viewed was when it was closed, not the original image (which is really the one I want to retain). Am I asking too much in functionality? I'd also like to only show one image per isotope item but have the others available in that per-post gallery, but maybe that can be done with CSS on image sizes? I haven't had much luck there though. There is a bog-standard install here: http://bonustomato.com/?q=models (only have terms set up for 1998, red, hardtail, and all-mountain fs)

Happy to provide any other info that would be necessary to troubleshooot, and apologize again if I'm asking about things that we never really intended to be part of the project scope.