[jQuery] jquery cycle plugin IE6 flicker (appears to reload elements repeatedly)

I've employed the jquery cycle plugin (great work malsup!) to display
banners for various hospitals (such as
http://intermountainhealthcare.org/hospitals/bearriver/Pages/home.aspx).

To display the banners, I nested the call within a separate script
containing

$(document).ready(function() {
(More scripts)
$('.ih-bannerCont').cycle({fx: 'fade', speed: 750, timeout: 7000,
before: contentOut, after: contentIn});
(More scripts)
});

While the cycler works great on IE7 and FF3, IE6 chokes as it tries to
reload the images each time the cycler changes views (this appears a
flicker between each slide, and a white background). I've reviewed
the cycler on malsup's jquery site, which works with no errors in
IE6. Did I miss something?

-Thanks