Thanks Mike, I got it working, i have to add inline widths to the first slide for the background endcap containers.
The IE 6 problem is frustrating. The CSS looks fine. Could you take a look at the CSS and code to see if I am doing ti right? I have this for js call.... <pre><code class="mix">$('#s7').cycle({ fx: 'scrollUp', pause: 1, cleartype: 1, timeout: 11000, delay: 500, fit: 1, nowrap: 1 });</code></pre>