Grrr, I found it, but what a letdown…
you have to look for:
/Joomlainstallfolder/modules/mod_janews_fp/tmpl/headline_fp.php (if you have that one selected)
and modiify line 66:
<div class="jazin-contentwrap clearfix" style="width: 100%;<?php echo ($headlineheight ? " height: {$headlineheight}px; overflow: hidden;" : ""); ?>">
into:
<div class="jazin-contentwrap clearfix" style="width: 100%;">
That should remove some arbitrary height from the frontpage…
Now pop quiz for the developers:
What did I do wrong to mess up the $headlineheight variable or why for Pete’s sake did you hard code CSS statements is some far off php file??? If you browse a bit through these fora you see there is a lot of code hidden throughout the template which is very annoying to find for every little change you want to make.