I'll look at the code. I think I can control when a border is added, so it would be a matter of turning off the border on title images. In fact, I don't think borders are displayed on title images in articles. I just looked -- title images don't show borders.... so I'm not not sure if I understand you. Don't assume that because a border appears in the gallery that a border is placed on all images in all locations.

Second, there are no more individual thumbnails for articles, they all use the generic thumbnail you've included? How about top images?

If you look at the list of articles you should see links with each one for changing the article thumb. However, it does look like I need to add a link to add/change a top image for the article.