JQuery IE7 problem (using jQuery Cycle plugin)

Question

I cannot get jQuery to work with IE7. I use the jQuery Cycle plugin, but I believe this problem is related to jQuery (and the fact that I'm new to it). I am trying to use a banner rotator that works on Firefox, Safari and IE8. In IE7, it doesn't even activate ... it just shows each div one by one.

Thank you in advance!

Example http://testing.observerpapers.com/lv

Js

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#myslides')
    .before('<div id="nav">')
    .cycle({
        fx: 'fade', // choose your transition type
        speedIn:  600, 
        speedOut: 600,
        timeout: 8000,
        pause: 0, // so that pauses when user hovers over a slide
        pager:  '#nav', // instructs the plugin to create navigation elements
    }); // every child element of the container becomes a slide     

    /*ddsmoothmenu.init({
        mainmenuid: "smoothmenu1", //menu DIV id
        orientation: 'h', //Horizontal or vertical menu: Set to "h" or "v"
        classname: 'ddsmoothmenu', //class added to menu outer DIV
        //customtheme: ["#1c5a80", "#18374a"],
        contentsource: "markup" //"markup" or ["container_id", "path_to_menu_file"]
    });*/
});

CSS

#myslides {
    width: 980px;
    height: 360px;
    /*overflow: hidden;*/
    z-index: 500;
    background:none !important;
}
#myslides div {
    /*background:none !important;*/
}
#myslides .textBlock {
    background: url(../images/home/bg-bb-textblocks.png) top left repeat;
    width: 360px;
    padding: 4px;
    margin-top: 42px;
    margin-left: 33px;
}
#myslides .textBlock div {
    padding: 17px 8px 10px 18px;
    border: 1px solid #756e67;
}
#myslides h1 {
    font: normal 24px/1.2 Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    color: #fff;
    margin-bottom: 5px;
}
#myslides p {
    font: normal 14px/1.3 Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    color: #fff;
}
#myslides cite {
    display: block;
    width: 500px;
    font-style: normal;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    color: #fff;
    font-size: 12px;
    position: absolute;
    bottom: 6px;
    left: 20px;
    z-index: 5000;
}
#myslides > div {
    width: 980px;
    height: 386px;
}
#myslides .billBoard1 {
    background: url(../images/home/bb-kingston.jpg) top left repeat;
}
#myslides .billBoard2 {
    background: url(../images/home/bb-harbor-breeze.jpg) top left repeat;
}
#myslides .billBoard3 {
    background: url(../images/home/bb-mondrian.jpg) top left repeat;
}
.slides {
    margin-left: 385px;
    width: 539px;
}
.navBG {
    position: absolute;
    display: block;
    z-index: 500;
    bottom: 0;
    width: 980px;
    height: 30px;
    background: url(../images/home/bg-bb-textblocks.png) top left repeat;
}
#nav {
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 501;
    top: 356px;
    right: 10px;
    height: 30px;
    text-align: right;
}
#nav a:hover, #nav a.activeSlide {
    background:none repeat scroll 0 0;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #fff;
}
#nav a {
    background:url("") repeat-x scroll 0 0;
    color: #d6d2cf;
    display: inline-block;
    font: 12px/18px Helvetica, Arial, san-serif;
    height: 18px;
    margin: 4px 0 0 5px;
    padding: 2px 8px;
    text-align: center;
    text-decoration: none;
}
#nav {
    font-size: 23px;
}

Answer 1

Remove the last comma in the loop attributes. IE is not fed by the fact that:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#myslides')
    .before('<div id="nav">')
    .cycle({
        fx: 'fade', // choose your transition type
        speedIn:  600, 
        speedOut: 600,
        timeout: 8000,
        pause: 0, // so that pauses when user hovers over a slide
        pager:  '#nav' //HERE I REMOVED THE COMMA
    });