jQuery Cycle Plug In - Not Cycling Images Properly?

[mtnmchgrl]

I'm having an odd issue with this plug in...
I used this site:
http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/basic.html
as my guide to make a group of photos cycle/fade on my home page. I wanted my photos to cycle EXACTLY like this basic example. No more effects were added/needed.

When you first load the website, it is not cycling like the above example. It has done a variety of different things depending on the browser I test. Mainly, it seems to pause for MUCH longer than 4-5 seconds on the first photo, then fades to my red background color and THEN goes through the cycle. Sometimes it just stops on red and goes no further. I want it to be on a continous fading loop that never stops.

Can someone take a look at this and see if it's something I coded wrong or if it's a CMSms issue somewhere?
http://www.homeagainfurniture.net

EDIT: I found two random <a> tags in the code of the pictures (WTF?) so I removed those and it seems to work in Chrome and in Firefox but in IE it is NOT working still.

[calguy1000]

try making your code validate first.
keep in mind.... CMSMS just generates the web pages as you tell it to. After that it's up to the browser to interpret your html, css, and javascript.

So if you don't generate valid HTML/css/javascript you're not allowing the browsers to do their job... and it's not CMSMS's fault.

[mtnmchgrl]

I did validate the site, initially, which is why I had that bit of code in the footer indicating that I had.

However, just for the heck of it, I ran it through again and there were a couple of issues, but just a few break tags that weren't closed.

So...my code/site validates.

STILL having the same jQuery issue.

Any other thoughts?

PS. I love CMSms A LOT so I'm not dogging it by any means. Just wondering why it's not working, when I have it coded exactly the same as the example?

[Nullig]

Works fine for me in FF.

Nullig

[calguy1000]

and you had a broken/missing image too (hence the red background).

[mtnmchgrl]

Yes, it appears to be working in Firefox and Chrome fine.

But NOT in Internet Explorer.

Any other suggestions??

[Dr.CSS]

What version of IE are you speaking of, now that there are 4 of them, IE6,7,8,9 ...

I checked it in 6,7, and 8, and it does work you just have to wait a while, IE6 has problems with some widths so the left and bottom are messed up, red backgrounds, IE7 has problem with the size of the text on left so red on bottom of images...

You may want to use the delay: function/call to tell it to start after XX seconds to help them poor IE browses...

[mtnmchgrl]

Sorry! I was checking it in IE 7 (on my computer).

I figured it was some kind of Microsoft hang up. I had actually tried a few "fixes" that I found online but hadn't gotten any of them to work. I'll try this out and see if that works.

Thanks!