Just found a tutorial on how to do this using CSS images and jQuery in ...
http://www.marcofolio.net/webdesign/advanced_jquery_background_image_slideshow.html
It seems to be in the depths. We will try to use it for the project that I am currently undertaking. Will report on how this happened.
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The above referenced jQuery seems to have addressed my issue when the jQuery Cycle plugin failed. Take a look at http://egdata.com/baf/ for an example. The main problem was that the slide show contained slides with a width of 1,500 pixels, where the page width was 960 pixels.
For some reason, the jQuery Cycle plugin adds a CSS style property for width when displaying the current slide. It initially looked correct, but crashed when resizing the browser window. The loop seems to set the width of the slides on load, and in my case I need the width to stay 100% instead of the actual pixel width of the window. http://egdata.com/baf/index_cycle.html
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