Cycle plugin | transition speed

Cycle plugin | transition speed

Love the Cycle plugin.

- works as expected in that one photo fades into the next photo smoothly.  Test page looks great -
http://www.dlmwebdevelopment.com/rocklands/jquery/rocklands-home.htm

However, when I put the exact same code into Thesis/WordPress, I get a long delay between the images, and spend several seconds looking at a blank stage - http://rocklands2.com/


Why would that be?  How to make the images transition fade smoothly into the next image?

Thanks.