you may have heard of Bx-Slider Which is a javascript / jquery carousel system. We recently integrated this carousel into a Drupal project but found some places where it could be improved. Namely it had the following issues:

• IE 7 and IE 8 bug when using xFading and bold text fonts
• xFading issues with layout caused by inline width/height being set by bx-slider
• Lack of any way to over-ride programmatically what the active roll over area should be for the auto-pause.

We resolved these issues and are now offering this code back to the world, you can download our version 3.01 of bx-slider. Please note this is not an official release and that we are not affiliated with bx-slider.

One last thing you should know, if you are having xFade issues with IE you will also need to define your background-color on the problematic DIV's that are inside of your player. We did not include code for this since each carousel will require a different color, and you can also use a background image instead. So this should be addressed in your CSS file.