Ok, I think I've got a good one here.

I am working on a site for a friend:
www.threatenmainstream.com

I did not have anything to do with the current design. I helped them add a ticker and I will be doing a total redesign and optimization of the site but the question is:

If you look at the ticker you will see that it seems to preload the data onscreen I guess before the script is actually running and I would like to eliminate that from happening. I also have been given the question: Is it possible to maintain the same ticker position when a user changes to a different page? He would not like the ticker to start over on every page load.

I am not sure if this is possible.

anyone know of any way to make this work?

1)
I don't see no loading effect. And it have nothing to load, appart the script that do the scrolling.
I'm on a 4000/300 connection here, and I see no delay when I look at your page

2)
For that, the easiest solutions I see would be to use frames.
The header seems to stay constant through the site, meaning that it don't need to be reloaded, and the lower half could be in a frame. That would remove that reload effect on the ticker, but there are consideration to take about usability, bookmarking and search engine incidence (think google cache here).

Another solution, that would avoid the frameset, would be to use a div to display the lower part of the site, and having ajax-style request that put content in that div.

You could avoid the bookmarking problem by using the hashing technic [ http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2...-and-back.html ] with this, but the site would not be available anymore to non-javascript enabled browser, as well as search engines.

It's up to you, but that seems a bit too much of requirements just to avoid the ticker reloading...