Oh boy, I feel stupid now. The reason I used the first example was because I was basing it off the ‘Read Me’ “You can also Whitelist an entire plugins folder by adding the plugins folder name to that Plugins Script/File Whitelist Text Area. Example: /cforms/js/cforms.js, /example-plugin-folder-name/, . You can also use the Plugin Override option to create a RewriteEngine Off .htaccess file in a plugins folder.” The reason I tried the second example was I was using the ‘dynamic folder exclusion’ example for the path as the basis for the plugin folder exlusion. Anyway, everything works correctly now!
Thank you for all the help.
PS: I’ve found an alternative widget to the smart-slideshow-widget called vSlider http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vslider/