I'm glad you're getting on well with things. Hopefully the notes below will help to clarify a couple of points.
However, the base HTML method when I enter into my wordpress document it shows up as script.
This sounds like you may have been entering the embedding code in 'Visual' mode rather than 'Text'. (In 'Visual' mode, anything you enter into the body of the post, such as HTML code, will be displayed on screen as you see it in the editor.)
The only issue I had was the color not working correctly. I had to still enter that into the plugin area for 'background color'.
backgroundColor is a Lite configuration option. Any Lite configuration options entered into the Pro Options text area will be ignored and must be set via their own individual controls in the gallery settings window.