ICab - HomePage Photo Albums/Slideshows

I've been trying iCab recently and have encountered a problem with HomePage albums and slideshows. (No problems in WaMCom and IE.)
iCab support replies have been helpful but produced no solutions.
Clicking on a HomePage photo album thumbnail opens the slideshow window but no picture loads, the activity wheel just spins. The browser then 'half stalls': windows can be closed and menus are available but no page can be loaded via link or URL. This happens using all identities.
However if I click on 'Start Slideshow' that works OK with identity set to iCab, Firefox or Safari. But as Opera or IE the slide show starts, but with no picture, just a tiny frame where the pic should be.
Broadband, no firewall. iCab memory set to 75000.
Any thoughts, please?
Michael

Great photos!
The slideshow works with iCab 3 (OS X and Classic), and iCab 2.9 (using Classic).
Clicking thumbnails works with iCab3 (OS X) and iCab 2.9 in Classic, BUT clicking thumbnails doesn't work with iCab 3 using Classic. (I'm not booting into OS 9 to check this out;-) This was with iCab using the default preferences.
I'll double-check this in the morning with the non-public iCab ß423. If it still doesn't work, I'll email Alex. It's probably JavaScript related, but I believe the InScript engine has been updated since the last public beta, so I'll have to check that out first.
I'll post back.

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