After using successfully the Malsup Cycle Plugin for jQuery, evertyhing was ok except one important minor thing. When using IE8 (Internet Explorer) a white background appeared suddenly when the slideshow was supposed to start.
I followed the recommendation from Malsup on this article, and added cleartypeNoBg to true. This helped to troubleshoot it and worked perfectly (Thanks Malsup!).
For example, the following image shows the slideshow that I was trying to create, and a dummy white background that is introduced by jQuery Cycle. After debugging the source code using Developer Tools from Internet Explorer, I figured this was a layer added by Cycle jQuery, and curiously the background for that layer was set to white.
