[jQuery] show/hide with jquery painfully fails in safari 3 / document.ready fires way too soon in safari

[jQuery] show/hide with jquery painfully fails in safari 3 / document.ready fires way too soon in safari


hi,
looking for help / has anyone else notice really bogus behavior in
safari: it is as though the document.ready function fires WAAAY too
early, as in, before the jquery library has loaded? everything works
fine in firefox, opera, even IE6! this is super-basic show hide stuff
here.
when the page loads, elements are hidden, when you mouseover another
element, others show. so the issue is in safari: when the page loads,
everything is *showing* when i have it set to be hidden.
again, this issue is only in safari. truly sad for what apple hypes as
being a good browser to use.
thanks.