For those who are interested, I was able to adjust the file noted in post 4122 above to allow me to continue not to show the phrase "larger image" on product pages where there is currently no image when using IH2.

Now I have another question. When the image is hovered, in addition to showing the image, the name of the product also shows up....I would like to eliminate this so that only the larger image appears. I don't think this can be controlled from admin (though perhaps I am mistaken)....I tried the developers toolkit to see where the file that controls this might be but so far without success.

So can anyone point me to where I might go to try to modify IH2 to eliminate the name of the product in the hovered image?

Thanks