I tried moving the link to stylesheet, moving the wp_head() call. No success with that, except for ruling out some more things.
What's strange is that it works perfectly on my localhost but not on the actual site.
As last resort I can try to disable the display option and use the manual customizing options:
<?php the_powerpress_content(); ?>
<?php $podcast_content = get_the_powerpress_content(); ?>
The .powerpress_player background-image was so clean and easy and worked so well I was trying anything to get that working before I started over with something new.
If you have any ideas please let me know.
Thanks again.