Marquees..., need help on more than one thing Options

[_stephen]

there's a vertical marquee on my website, and its bugging me. as the images are loading, the contents are stretched into a long vertical bar until all the images are loaded. once its loaded it begins to scroll and is the correct size. any ideas?

also, i would like to get rid of the space at the end of the marquee so that its continuous. is this possible?

thanks a lot ofr looking, and if you can help me find an alternative to marquees that do the same thing i will be very grateful.