no worries thanks balihr. I notice on the slideshow that it is trying load 11 images the first one is blank. In banner manager slide1 has been assigned an image but it would appear when going by the buttons that this is actually slide2?
Another issue which you may be able to shed some light on and that is that fact since installing ZX Slideshow my carousel sideboxes have stopped working, tried changing js files etc but nothing seems to work, I will be posting in the carousel thread also. thanks again sorry for being a pest.