jQuery Cycle Plugin: How to preload first images with a loading background gif then fade in Cycle Sl

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Hello all,

I'm struggling with this, maybe some of you can help...

I have a home page slideshow with large images at www.theoribeiro.com using jQuery Cycle plugin
Images are large and sometimes with slow connections (but even in fast ones) the behavior of the slideshow start is pretty ugly, showing the image all of a sudden or half-loaded.
I want to make sure that at least the 2 or 3 first images are loaded before the slideshow starts and meanwhile I want to run a loading animated gif, then I want to fade in the first image.

I searched a lot on the internet and on the forums and tried loads of stuff with my limited knowledge of javascript and jQuery but could't come up with a solution.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

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