jQuery + rotate/cycle images

jQuery + rotate/cycle images

hello all, i'm new to jquery i'm trying to make a circular image rotate. this image has 5 texts that i'd like to make linkeable.

my first approach was with jQueryRotate (really great plugin, provides exactly what I need) but the links only worked on chrome. because of this I just tried jquery.cycle with the fade effect and it worked entirely. the backside is that I had to create several images and several imagemaps for the links, but the compatibility is great.

so the question would be, how come only chrome detects my imagemap for the rotating image? does anybody experience similar behavior?

i'm doing all of this from oracle apex 3.2

thanks, i'll provide code if asked.