Movieclip jpeg gap

Hi, im making a gallery for a photography website, but im
having a problem when moving the pictures around using tweener or
tweenlite. Whenever i use a tween on the image group (all the
thumbnails are contained in a movieclip) or on a certain quantity
of images, some gaps appear between images *sometimes*, check out
this image :
http://www.episode17.com/larok/flashprob.jpg
I tried rounding out positions without luck... or maybe im
not rounding the right thing
Any idea?
thanks!

distordimage allows you to control the 4 corners of any rectangular movieclip which allows you to mimic a 2d object moving in 3d space:
http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/distordimage-the-way-to-distord-bitmaps-by-code.html
p.s. please mark helpful/correct responses.

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