Non-Modal Slideshow

Non-Modal Slideshow

I'm looking for a jQuery slideshow plugin, and I can't seem to find one that does exactly what I need. Cycle and jCarousel come close. But my problem is I have multiple galleries on one page, and they all have large images. So, since they load all the images in every gallery and then hide them, the page totals over 4000KB.

I'm looking for a non-modal, no thumbs gallery. The first image of the gallery should be visible on page load, and the prev/next images should only load as needed—something like Litebox or Thickbox (but without modal popup) that calls the next/prev image and loads it as needed, with a loading gif.

Here's the large-loading page: http://www.circleatseven.com/test/portfolio.php

The galleries look exactly like they should, but the page load time is way too long. Any suggestions?