Animated GIF Glitch - Please Advise

I created the shiny button on the right side of the web layout and it works fine.
Yesterday, I created a 4-image animated GIF of sign language people. For some reason the 4 image GIF hurries up its cycle and the shiny button works fine only 1 time. If you click on a secondary page, the shiny button keeps shining like it's supposed to. Only back on the home page does the shiny button shine only one time and the 4-image one rushes through its cycle.
http://hissign.com/newdevelopment/index.html
Any advise is appreciated.
Thanks - Deaf Guy

Hi Michael,
Yes, it works fine in Chrome, Firefox and Safari for me on a Mac.
One thing I would suggest though; instead of using an animated gif for the sign language images why not use a slide show widget and jpg images?
It does the same thing and you would not lost the quality of the images because of the gif format.

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