I'm currently usign Lightbox to provide a slideshow for photos. The problem is, if the page hasn't fully loaded when someone clicks a photo, Ligthbox doesn't work and I just get a blank page with a photo in the corner as per http://www.quickhousesale4me.co.uk/r...ts-ipswich.htm.

Is there any better / more reliable free software out there that's also easy to use?

Alternatively, does anyone know of a way to make Lightbox work? I now put the code for calling Lightbox at the bottom of the page (which is why it doesn't work until the page is fully loaded) but when I used to put it at the top of the page it sometimes caused an "Operation Aborted" error message and the page would crash out with a loud clanging, which was even worse!!

I'd be grateful for any pointers as I would like to be able to offer a slideshow effect that works every time!!!

There are a whole lot of Lightbox 'clones' that have various different features.
http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/
http://fancy.klade.lv/index.php
http://spaceforaname.com/galleryview
http://nyromodal.nyrodev.com/
http://www.ajaxdaddy.com/lightwindow.html

Here are 2 that I've used several times.

http://www.stickmanlabs.com/lightwindow/
http://www.doknowevil.net/litebox/

Nice resources LadynRed and Geek Specialties. Those are useful sites that I can use too. Thanks guys!

Thanks for all those slideshow software links!

Very useful resources. Thanks for sharing.

thanks for the link, ill use them too

Many thanks to both LadynRed and GeekSpecialities - I shall check those out!

Thanks for sharing all this info, and the links too.
Sometimes is hard to obtain this info so easily.

For anyone who's interested I've just found this in Stumbleupon. Looks a useful source of info although I haven't yet checked anything out:

http://www.cmdshiftdesign.com/blog/2...age-galleries/

Had the same problem before but found the solution with http://spaceforaname.com/galleryview. Very reliable.