$('#slideshow').before('<ul id="slideThumbs">').cycle({ 
    fx:     'fade', 
    speed:  'slow',
    speedIn: 1000,
    speedOut: 1000,
    timeout: 5000,
    slideExpr: 'img'});
  
    //Nov 23: Eva M. commented these out since the client didn't want the thumbnails
    //pager:  '#slideThumbs', 
    // callback fn that creates a thumbnail to use as pager anchor 
    //pagerAnchorBuilder: function(idx, slide) { 
        //return '<li><a href="#"><img src="' + slide.src + '" width="75" height="52" alt="" /></a></li>'; 
    //}