Images not showing up in IE 8

Anonymous users in IE 8 are not able to see images in my views slideshow.
I've checked permissions on; Views, Imagecache, Uploads, my view, blocks, ect...
This works fine in Safari, Chrome, Opera, and Firefox.
I know IE suxxxx but I can't tell my supervisiors to just eat the fact the homepage is missing their cool pictures.

The only clue I have is this error from IE:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3)
Timestamp: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:38:34 UTC

Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 138
Char: 5
Code: 0
URI: https://MYWEBSITE/sites/all/modules/views_slideshow/contrib/views_slides...

just FYI line 138 is....

  var func = value.match(/function\s*\((.*?)\)\s*\{(.*)\}/i);

the code that surrounds it is:

// Need to evaluate so true, false and numerics aren't a string.
        if (value == 'true' || value == 'false' || IsNumeric(value)) {
          value = eval(value);
        }
        else {
          // Parse strings into functions.
          var func = value.match(/function\s*\((.*?)\)\s*\{(.*)\}/i);
          if (func) {
            value = new Function(func[1].match(/(\w+)/g), func[2]);
          }
        }