Image Partial Load

Hi, I'm setting up a slideshow for a client site and have used Views Slideshow at least a half dozen times without any significant issues. I'm currently using 6.x-3.0-beta1 cycle and loading a set of relatively large slideshows (each slideshow is 4-7 MB in total) displaying at the full width of a fluid theme. However, each time I land on one of these slideshow pages, the first slide doesn't load incorrectly – the top 5% of it loads and it hangs and then the slideshow eventually transitions to the next slideshow it is fine thereafter. Often (but not always) if I go back to a slideshow like this once it is cached it works – but not always. This error seems to happen about 40-60% of the time.

I found this error: http://drupal.org/node/1102982 – which appears to be the same thing, but my problems are happening across all browsers. I had originally thought it was an ImageAPI issue and switched to ImageMagick, but the problem is persisting. I thought it may be set_memory_limit as the dev site I'm using is capped at 96M. Any suggestions?

Drupal.settings javascript:

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