Cherie you're right, I didnt do a good job explaining the situation.
Basically
every store on the web:
1 item in 5 different colors are shown both on the specific item's page and as 5 different items with different colors when you are browsing through a product list.
X-Cart system:
1 item in 5 different colors are only shown as 1 item on the product list and 5 different colors on the specific item's page.
Which means, if you have 1 shirt in 5 colors , and the customer doesn't like the color shown he wont click into it. There is nothing to indicate that there are more color options. I'm not looking to add a "more color options" line when hovered. From my experience with the web and building websites you have to be very obvious in everything you do.
Thanks guys. does anyone have any other help they can offer? This should be embarrassing to x-cart that they have no option on their store to do this after all these years.
