Yeah you could do that. Look for this code in the view.php file of whatever template you're using (for example, if your using the light look in c5mix_featured_content_slider/blocks/page_list/templates/featured_content_slider_light/view.php):

and change the value of the href from:

to this:

I have tried to do this and it just blows everything up in the latest version of the module.

it shouldn't break anything. What do you mean by "just blows everything up"? Is it throwing an error?

I pulled one of the blocks (light) out and made a copy in the outer blocks folder so I could customize the pull a bit. It works fine - modified it to work with the Page List + module so I could pull content based on a query rather than just a location. All of that works just fine. If I change the one place you suggest, all of a sudden the animation quits working and the sizing of the of right side thumbnails goes crazy as the animation tries to start. I think it is because it is removing the #c5mix...... prefix on the link which effects the js from interacting with the DOM properly. Am I wrong?

That really shouldn't affect that. Can you send me a link to a page that has this on it so I can take a look?

dpowerinc.allaboutsarasota.com (as is)
dpowerinc.allaboutsarasota.com/test (with code changed and broken)

Well, I see that it's not working fully but I don't see the issue with the thumbnail like you mentioned. I guess with the newer version of jquery tabs that it's using now (vs before my initial post) it won't work unfortunately.

My client is also wanting the thumbnails on the right to link into the appropriate pages. Is there an update on how I could do this?
Thanks.

You can try what I mentioned above. Otherwise, not really. Because that kind of defeats the purpose of being able to click through the "tabs/slides"