CYCLE - Problem with Large Slideshows

CYCLE - Problem with Large Slideshows

I'm trying to put together a Cycle slideshow using fairly large images and a lot of them, and have used CSS to solve the problem of the "unstyled content", but I cannot get the slideshow to advance (manually) until a long loading time has passed.  Is there a way to make it advance to the next as soon the second slide is loaded (or not even that), rather than waiting for a whole bunch of them to load?  It needs to start immediately, even if the slides are still loading.  For example, if the second slide is still loading, I want the user to still be able to advance to it and watch it load on the screen.  I think that is preferable to having a dead slideshow where the controls do not respond at all.  Thanks in advance