On a website I'm builing I'm using the cycle plugin with permalinks. This works great, but because of the many images that are being loaded on the page the starting slide is loaded like an image on a slow connection; bit by bit.

I'm trying to avoid this so what I figured is that I need the "load" event which fires when all images are loaded instead of the "ready" event when the DOM only is ready. From the options reference I understand "requeueOnImageNotLoaded" comes the closest to what I'm looking for but doesn't do the trick.

How would I achieve this? Also is there an option to let the first slide fadeIn instead of the fade in between slides?

All help appreciated, thanks :)